GhostSurf 2007 Platinum - Make Yourself Invisible

Adapted by:  • Edited by: Ronda Roberts
Updated Jan 28, 2012
• Related Guides: Internet | User Interface
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GhostSurf 2007 Platinum is a poltergeist that will scare away the spammers, scammers, and myriad other Internet miscreants. This security application is used to make yourself invisible on the Internet, but will it provide complete Internet anonymity? Read on to find out.

Introduction

GhostSurf 2007 Platinum is a security application used to make yourself invisible on the Internet. To the uninitiated, anonymous Internet surfing may seem like a no-brainer. In truth, it is quite difficult. GhostSurf 2007 Platinum can be used to both surf anonymously and to also remove nearly every trace of your online activity.

The need for products such as GhostSurf becomes obvious in light of a recent reports detailing that based on the weather reports and restaurant listings you check out online, search engines such as Yahoo have a good idea where you live. And based on searches you've done, the web portal might also know where you want to go. Users, then, should not be surprised to suddenly see an advertisement for flight deals between those two places. It's what United Airlines did with an ad on Yahoo earlier this year as people browsed for something completely unrelated to travel. Elsewhere, online hangout Facebook is mining friends' buying habits, and major Internet portals have bought companies to expand their reach and capabilities for "behavioral targeting"--all so advertisers can try to hit you with what they believe you're most likely to buy, even as doing so means amassing more data on you.

With that, you may find you really need GhostSurf 2007 Platinum, which is a proxy. Rather than you surfing directly to a website, it reroutes your requests via its anonymous proxy. You get the same Internet experience, but remote sites have no way to trace activities back to you. Overall, the functionality of GhostSurf 2007 is similar to that of the Anonymizer Anonymous Surfing Platinum.

For those who are serious about security and privacy, and don't want to be bothered by spammers, phishers, and myriad other scams and threats, GhostSurf 2007 Platinum gets the job done.

Price to Value
Rating Excellent

GhostSurf 2007 Platinum is reasonably priced at $29.99. The price is little to spend to prevent yourself from becoming a victim of spammers, phishers, Nigerian fraudsters, etc. In essence, GhostSurf 2007 Platinum is an insurance policy. One incident of identity theft or data misappropriation can have devastating effects. The product is a cheap defense against an expensive threat.

Installation & Setup
Rating Excellent

Installation Screen The initial install is a standard Windows install. After entering the serial number, the program then takes you through an eight-step configuration process.

The process is what you would expect for such a program and does not present any challenges to using the program. Most users can accept the default options and make changes later if needed. For more specific configuration comments, see the "User Interface" section.

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