Product Reviews

The government isn't the only one with lessons to learn from recent data disasters: all of us should re-assess how seriously we take data security on a personal level.

When it comes to data privacy, there are plenty of reasons why you might want to remain anonymous while browsing the web, and the truly paranoid will want to leave as minimal a click-trail as possible. Anonymizer does as good a job as any proxy server we've seen. It hides your IP address by redirecting your web traffic through the Anonymizer 128-bit SSL secure servers, so the websites you visit see its generic IP address rather than yours. An integrated antiphishing early-warning tool helps protect you from scams, and the latest Anonymizer works with Vista, too. On the downside, it costs £15 per year and, because your traffic is going through another server layer, it slows down the speed of your browsing.