Posted by julias
Is there any site or software i can download to my office PC that will let me browse websites anonymously without being found out?So that also means that nothing should be saved on the system browser memory.I know and have heard of sites that are out there that are good for this sort of thing but personally i've never ever used them so have no clue which (if any) are good and reliable?
Posted by blerk
Try Tor, they got a suite with firefox, instant messaging. Its pretty secure, but if you want to be full sure you don't leave any traces on your pc get a usb stick with vmware player + a linux desktop, or virtualbox + linux desktop and run Tor inside there. Read more here. You can also download the bundle and extract it to a usb stick and run it form there, it should not create any files on the system itself. Depending on the level your local sysadmin is running things, they could still see you're making requests to certain tor-nodes, but they wont be able to see where it goes.
Another alternative is to the a VPN somewhere and use that to browse the web, the VPN session will be encrypted so sniffing is utterly useless. But you still need to browse in a portable browser that doesn't create files on the host system, or use Firefox/IE in privacy mode.
Good luck.
Posted by Nanu
which browser are you using? I know IE8 and Chrome have incognito modes which allows you to browse without your movements being logged
Posted by blerk
Those privacy modes are only useful if the sysadmin doesn't monitor network traffic, but only checks the pc. Any normal non-https traffic is plain text and can be logged very easily.
Posted by julias
Thanks so much blerk will definitely try what you have advised there
Nanu my office PC uses IE8, not sure if this incognito mode you mentioned is entirely reliable? will take a look at it though
Cheers!
Posted by lukechris
There is a system in my school which logs EVERYTHING you go on. They are mostly client PCs to the server and there is a program running in the background, which takes screenshots of your screen if it picks up a certain keyword. I got caught on eBay in a room with no teacher. Do be aware of stuff like this
Posted by mriley
most schools including ours has that system. Companies also use it without telling employees about it
Posted by Jazz2k
If you can, the safest way maybe to either use a phone over 3g unless you can't have your phone on show or setup an rdp to connect to your home pc and browse/download via that. Other than that, the safest way is to not do it and get on with some work, slacker... Lol!!!
