- Quick specs
- Price: Free to try (14-day trial); $29.95 to buy
- Operating system: Windows Me/2000/XP/2003/Vista/Server 2008/7/NT/3/4/SP 1/2/3/4/5/6/2000 Professional/Server/Advanced Server/SP 1/2/3/4/XP Home Edition/Professional/SP 1/2/64-bit/SP 1/2/Itanium 64-bit/SP 1/2/32-bit/Media Center Edition/2003/2004/2005/2003 SP 1/64-bit/SP 1/Itanium 64-bit/SP 1/32-bit/Server 2003 x86 R2/x64 R2/Vista Home Basic/Premium/Business/Enterprise/Ultimate/32-bit/AMD 64-bit/Itanium 64-bit/64-bit/Server 2008 Standard/Enterprise/Datacenter/Web Server 2008/Server 2008 Itanium/HPC Server 2008/Server 2008 x86/x64/7 32-bit/64-bit
- Date added: April 02, 2009
- Total Downloads: 36,392
- Downloads last week: 824
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A newer version of Hide My IP 2009 is available.
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 21 votes
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CNET editors' review
Reviewed by: CNET Staff
It helps protect your privacy by masking your IP address with an alias, but the demo version's trial restrictions make it hard to test all of this application's functionality.
Hide My IP 2008's initial interface lets you choose how often you want to change your IP address. You also have the options of launching the program at start-up, clearing any cookies once the IP changes, and requesting a U.S. IP. But this is where we encountered the first of many trial restrictions; with the exception of requesting a U.S. IP, the other options are disabled in the demo version. More advanced settings let you choose which Web browser you want to use to enable the program. There is also the choice of where you want the program to locate the alternate IP address. But once again, its not available during the trial. When we clicked the hide IP button, the program quickly changed our IP address. But thanks to those pesky trial restrictions, users are only allowed one alternate IP per trial. There is a sacrifice in surfing speed, and some testers reported that Web browsers ran incredibly slow when using the alias IP.
A Help menu isn't included. Hide My IP 2008 can mask your real IP address, but there's a possible sacrifice in browser speed, and no way to see if the additional settings and features work. We suggest you try other more fully-functional demo versions before making your decision on which one to buy.
Publisher's description
From Hide-My-IP :Conceal your online identity with the click of a button. Surf anonymously, encrypt your Internet traffic, hide your IP while surfing the Internet, using forums, sending E-mails, instant messaging, playing games, and more. Hiding your IP address is as simple as clicking the "Hide My IP" button, which automatically configures your Web browser or other application to use a proxy server from our private proxy network. Change your IP address automatically every few minutes and cloak your browser's User Agent and Referrer headers. Select from hundreds of our private network IPs or public proxies from all over the world. Version 2009 now supports Encrypted Connection Mode, allowing you to encrypt all your Web traffic using secure 128-bit SSL Encryption. Other new features include hotkey support, cookie blocking, IP history, and IP SmartSwitching to randomize your IP addresses.
Version 4.0.12.25645 features more proxy IPs, more locations, encrypted connection mode, keyboard shortcuts, automatic cookie cleaning.
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Version 4.0.12.25645 features more proxy IPs, more locations, encrypted connection mode, keyboard shortcuts, automatic cookie cleaning.
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User reviews of Hide My IP 2009 4.0.12.25645
- Average user rating: 2.1 stars out of 21 votes
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Version: Hide My IP 2009 4.0.12.25645
"Browser didn't work. Gave a Houston, TX IP address."
Pros: Zero Stars
Cons: Cable internet only response to my IP address. I uninstalled it and the process took a little more than it installed. Firefox ran in background. Closed and booted in safe mode. I had to uninstall my Firefox browser and install my back-up registry.
Summary: When your browsers don't work. Your given a Houston,TX IP address. Then something shows up in my recycle bin. "Dc100" file. I found out that's WINNT. So, your IP address is known and you uninstall. After uninstall, you have to prepare your system. ... read more >>
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Version: Hide My IP 2009 4.0.12.25645
"Sporadic, slow, poor support"
Pros: When it does work, it ain't to bad
Cons: It's down a lot. The premium service isn't worth it unless you absolutely need a country specific IP, but then that's likey to be down as well when you most need it. I think they have one employee named Doug who isn't very helpful.
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Version: Hide My IP 2009 4.0.12.25645
"Doesn't hide your IP well enough"
Pros: Nothing good to say, it does not work
Cons: Doesn't hide your IP address well enough
Summary: With a bit more tweaking this might be a worthwhile piece of software
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Version: Hide My IP 2009 4.0.12.25645
"I wish i could rate this lower this product BLOWS"
Pros: changed my IP for some web sites.
Cons: This product slowed down my computer so that I was thinking of how fast my dial up was at 14.4kbs 20 years ago.
It did not work for every web site i visited. Some would not let me in at all. Justin.TVSummary: I am so gladd that I did not spend any money on this...but even with the hide my IP being active it is still slowing down my computer...
Dont wast you time even downloading the free trial version. There is not even an uninstall button.... read more >> -
Version: Hide My IP 2009 4.0.12.25645
"Waste of money and total garbage"
Pros: Works for surfing the web, That's all.
Cons: excessively slow. Uninstall did not reset everything. Proxy was left set in firefox and internet options. Easy to fix but a nuisance. Very sloppy.
Summary: Dont waste your time or money.
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