Ghostsurf 2005 Platinum Description:

Ghostsurf 2005 Platinum review:5 stars (Ghost Surf) - Every computer should have this program! User friendly and it keeps you and your computer incognito and clean. Bravo! 3 stars (privacy) - Your pc was already infected with some spywares if following stuffs are being seen by outside world
-your pc network name
-amount of ram
-hard drive size
In programming point of view, someone needs to install his spyware in your pc, so that he can get that kind of information.
For that case, nothing can protect your privacy.
Nomatter what kind of software or hardware you are using, you can not eliminate your traces.

2 stars (a bit disappointing. But extra utilities help save the pkg.) - I am no guru on IT security, especially being able to appear "invisible" on the WWW.

That's why I bought this software.

I know that for years, anonymizer has offered this sort of thing.
But I beleive it was via the use of their websites, which acted as proxies.
[not with simply a standalone software package on your desktop].

Well, if you surf long enough, just shopping or pricing out consumer goods, eventually you'll come across a website that says something like,
"Welcome IP address 120.35.45.10
[or whatever your PC's assigned address might be]"

Usually such sites go on to tell you stuff about your pc like:
-browser used [netscape,IE, mozilla,etc]
-your pc network name
-amount of ram
-hard drive size
-on, and on, and on

I use pc-cillin 2004 with anti-virus and firewall.
I thought everything was set to avoid any disclosure of networking information about my pc. Since I had my settings cranked up to the HIGHEST privacy settings within
pc-cillin .

Well, after cranking up everything to MAX privacy levels within GHOSTSURF platinum, I flushed my cache, cookie and such.
I renewed my IP address via DHCP.
Then I went a surfing.


As soon as I came across a site that "claimed" to know everything about my pc, I compared their data to mine.
At the command prompt, I typed IPCONFIG/ALL and sure enough, my IP number matched the one [that they said I appeared to be using out on the web] !!!!

So what exactly was this ghostsurf "supposed" to be doing to protect my privacy?
Why WAS my pc's network address, IP address, and so on, STILL being seen by the outside world???
I was supposed to be all setup to be surfing in an INVISIBLE mode!?!?

My IP address was supposed to be blocked and my pc's name and so on.

Oh well, back to the drawing board.

But the package did include an anti-spyware package called spycatcher. It's is not the greatest ad-ware, mal-ware detector/cleaner, but then again it is not the worst either.

Finally, it offered a set of "cleanup tools", if I rememeber correctly.

I got this software back during a huge a rebate-type-of-sale. It was almost a FREE-AFTER-REBATE, but not quite. Make like 5 or 10 bucks, final price.

In today's world, complete "Invisiblity" is quite unlikely. Whether via software, or hardware, or both.

Just my .02 cents.