Setting up Tor with Privoxy and Proxomitron

[Kye-U]

Note: This guide is outdated, read this post for a new quick and easy method!

Guide to Setting up Tor with Privoxy and Proxomitron
-A collaboration of this topic started by JakBeNymble.

After following the steps in this post, you will be able to hide your IP address at the click of a button (By turning on Proxomitron's Remote Proxy Feature).

You'll need Tor, Privoxy, and Proxomitron.

If you would like to set up Tor as a hidden service, please read the bottom of this post.

If you'd like to use only Tor and Privoxy, skip Step #1.

1) Setting up Proxomitron

Set the "Remote Proxy" as:

127.0.0.1:8118

And add a tick to the 'Use a Remote Proxy' box.

This should be it

2) Setting up Privoxy

1. Download the following file.

2. Open it with WinRAR/WinZIP (or an uncompressor of your choice that supports ZIP Archives), and, making sure Privoxy is not running, extract all files to "C:\Program Files\Privoxy".

3. Click on "Yes to all" when it asks you if you would like to overwrite existing files.

3) Using the three altogether

For the browser of your choice, set the HTTP (or HTTPS as well) Proxy Server as:

Server: 127.0.0.1
Port: 8080

As you noticed, this is the default setting for Proxomitron. (If you have set Proxomitron to use a different port, then change as needed).

Start up Tor, Privoxy and Proxomitron, and go to a webpage, Torified

This setup makes it so that requests from your computer go through Proxomitron, then Privoxy, then Tor.

For those who just want to use Privoxy and Tor, set the HTTP (or HTTPS as well) Proxy Server as:

Server: 127.0.0.1
Port: 8118

Making Tor a Hidden Service [For Windows 2000/XP]

I have written a small tool in NSIS in order to make Tor a hidden service.

Download this file.

Note, you'll have to restart your computer after to have it working, and you MUST have installed Tor in its default location, C:\Program Files\Tor

'Torifying' Select Sites

For those of you who have some sites you would like to be anonymous on, this filter I wrote will be handy.

It consists of one header filter, and a Lists file. Sites included in the List file will be routed through Tor (and Privoxy). This makes it so that you do not have to turn on Proxomitron's "Remote Proxy" feature!

Simply download it, extract the Lists folder and "Torify.mergeme" to the same folder "Proxomitron.exe" is located and merge "Torify.mergeme" with your config file.

Download it here (64 kB): http://prxbx.com/forums/download.php?id=2

Post-Installation Notes

1. While having your connections routed through the Tor network, you WILL notice some decrease in your download speeds of pages, files, etc.

2. Add Privoxy (and Proxomitron) to your Start Up folder in your Start Menu --> Programs list to make it less of a hassle for you (instead of opening them manually every time).