The best paid proxy service which offers you both user&pass and IP authentication methods. Select the method you prefer.

Firewalls have become an essential part of modern computing. Malevolent viruses and malicious code lingers on the internet waiting for some poor potential victim to click the link, open the email and infect their computer. These viruses serve a purpose beyond that of just causing inconvenience to the victim. Some of these lurk on a computer undetected and record the keystrokes made for bank account passwords and manipulate the security so that the perpetrator can have a back door into the computer and can access it remotely.

For businesses and schools that regularly allow a large number of guests onto their computers a firewall is there to protect the network from infiltration. The firewall prevents internet based code from accessing the computer or network by blocking access. Combining an adequate firewall with a proxy server though means that even if a malicious code is able to make it through the firewall that the network and computers connected to it never access a web page directly.

The computer accesses a proxy server, which redirects the website through the server itself so that the server hosting the website you are accessing cannot upload anything into your network. Through the use of paid proxy services, you can protect your system from infiltration and infection. There are two main advantages to purchasing a paid proxy service, the first is that it can make your internet access much more efficient safely. A site that you access frequently is cached, or stored, on the proxy server, not on your computer network. This makes the next time you load the site almost instantaneous. Cookies and Temp files identifying your IP address are stored on the proxy server, not on the server hosting the website.

Second, the use of proxy services means that you are surfing the web anonymously. You may not know that each server you access online keeps a record of the IP addresses, i.e. your specific computer, that have logged on to their system. With a proxy service, your IP address isn’t used, the address of the proxy is used. There are a number of paid proxy services available, do some investigation and find the one that is right for you.

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