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Discussion => Security => Topic started by: klich on October 06, 2011, 01:24 pm

Title: Tor and DNS leaks
Post by: klich on October 06, 2011, 01:24 pm
There's one thing I do not understand about Tor and DNS leaks:

does it apply only to applications you want to anonymize?

To put it simply, If I browse SR with Tor and use my usual browser for normal sites, and additionally download torrents with uTorrent AT THE SAME TIME, is my Tor security compromised?
Title: Re: Tor and DNS leaks
Post by: LexusMiles on October 08, 2011, 02:12 am
There were about 5 answers to this before, and now they are all deleted.. what gives? I swear this place is glitching hard or possibly compromised.

Anyways to repeat my answer from before (can remember what others said, but there was some good advice)... Go download and install Proxifier. Preferably in Sandboxie or a VirtualBox, but if you want to just on your regular OS. Be aware though, if you install it on your raw OS, all the traffic of all apps is proxified through tor. This is why its ideal for Sandboxie or VirtualBox. The upside is that it has an option for remote DNS, so all DNS will be forced through tor.
Title: Re: Tor and DNS leaks
Post by: CrunchyFrog on October 08, 2011, 02:53 am
Quote from: LexusMiles
There were about 5 answers to this before, and now they are all deleted.. what gives?...
Heh, I seem to remember answering this and one other post yesterday, plus several posts that I'd read are now marked "new" again. :o  Let's hope it was just a restore-from-backup for purely technical reasosns.

Quote from: klich
There's one thing I do not understand about Tor and DNS leaks: does it apply only to applications you want to anonymize?...
Yes; non-Tor-ified applications can (and will) still resolve outside of the Tor network as they normally would.

Quote from: klich
...If I browse SR with Tor and use my usual browser for normal sites, and additionally download torrents with uTorrent AT THE SAME TIME, is my Tor security compromised?
No; if your Tor-ified applications are configured correctly and there's no spyware/malware on the system (or in the other apps) you should be OK.  However, be careful not to paste URLs you'd like anonymized into the wrong browser (or other application).