Hide Referrer information!

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Hi malware fighters,

Use this here:
http://www.hiderefer.com/
to Hide Referer url

http://spoofurl.com is another good one, and this: http://linkthe.net

Inside the Firefox browser it is performed as described here: http://www.whibb.com/hide-referrer-headers-in-firefox.html

polonus

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Why do I want to hide or disguise my URL ??

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Hi bob3160,

You would not find much use for it, bob3160, but there are situations that one does not want to know where one came from and then prefers to seem to come in from the dark.
Hiding the referer prevents your web page url from appearing on other systems referrer logs.

This information is sent by browsers to the web server of the web site page you are visiting. Web servers log this information to identify the website pages where people are visiting from, for statistical, promotional and security reasons.

However, because referer information is a url of the web page where you were on before clicking on a link, it might contain confidential information that must not be exposed. One example is appending SESSION ID to the url. When user clicks on an external link from that page, SESSION ID is also sent as part of referer url to that external page and this is one way to hijack sessions,

polonus

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Thanks for the explanation Damien.
You’re right, it isn’t anything I have any use for.