Setting up Tor with Privoxy and Proxomitron

[sonlyme]

Hi all - Great thread. Thanks to Kye-U for his guide and all who have added to the thread.

Could you help me on 2 points please ?

I've played around with a couple of variations, starting with Vidalia and now opted for the less graphic, Proxomitron, Privoxy, Tor set-up. All seems fine, no obvious problems.

1. My first question relates to entering my router's address in the exceptions list in my browser. It's not mentioned specifically by Kye-U in his initial post, tho' I see he mentions only having the "localhost, 127.0.0.1" entry in a later post.

Should my router's address be added here ? Is this something that should always be done - or doesn't it really matter ? I'm unclear about this one.

If it should be entered, in Opera it's very clear cut. The exceptions list is just a blank field and appears to invite the user to put in the relevant address as I would type it into the browser. In Firefox the 'No Proxy for' field already contains "localhost, 127.0.0.1". Do I keep this and simply add my router address - so that were it 1.12.12.123 - it would read:-

localhost, 127.0.0.1, 1.12.12.123


2. My second question relates to Kye-U's tool for making Tor a 'Hidden Service'.

I'm running Windows XP(SP2) on this machine - could you please explain in 'Tools for Dummy's' talk, what the 'Make Tor a hidden service' tool does.

What changes I should expect to see on installing this - Pros & Cons etc.

Thanks all .