

Note on 2022: This project that executes Tor service on Windows with the above interface, and display an icon on the taskbar is called Tor Vidalia Bundle and it's not maintained anymore, deprecated and not recommended. On the taskbar of your compute you'll see a small green onion when Tor is running.


Before you setup Bitcoin or mIRC to use Tor, please install Tor and start in. This is a detailed installation guide for Windows. Tor doesn't magically anonymize all your traffic just because you install it.ĭown the page you can find examples how to configure applications to use Tor to anonymize the origin of your traffic. Please follow the instructions provided with installation files and read the list of warnings. Todo explain: onion routing (how tor network helps to anonymize), encryption used, exit nodes, routers

Once complete, open Firefox (the first time it will install the extension, quit Firefox and then reopen it to activate it) and you’ll see Tor Disabled in the lower right hand corner of Firefox. The installer package can be run choosing all of the defaults and then will need a reboot. You can download the Vidalia Tor installer bundle, which will install privoxy, Vidalia, Tor and the Torbutton extension for Firefox. Or use it manually – you can, but you don’t have to. Because privoxy is a command line tool, you can also access the help page for that using the following command (using privoxy as your working directory):privoxy –helpBy default privoxy will install the following files on your system:īut you don’t have to install any of that. Once you have installed privoxy you can access the configuration page at. But it can also be used to filter information for Tor. Many may use privoxy to do adware removal. Tor is a free anonymizing service, but doesn’t also encrypt your traffic.Privoxy is a non-caching proxy that also has a certain amount of filtering built into it. Tor is a tool that can be used to proxy your online communications between multiple, randomly selected, global providers effectively anonymizing your Internet traffic.
