Surfer Protection Program is an Internet privacy product developed by Intelligent Software Modeling, Inc. You can read Surfer Protection Program's Privacy Statement here.

What exactly does it do?

While acting as an HTTP proxy, it protects your privacy by deleting (or faking) eight data elements, including the Cookie field and Referrer fields, from every request that your browser sends out to web servers on the Internet. It is the blocking of these data elements — not the blocking of sites or, as some would have you believe, the blocking of ads — that protects your privacy. Although the blocking of sites (or ads) does not enhance your online privacy, that capability is also included here because blocking content in which you're not interested can significantly reduce download times. In doing so, Surfer Protection Program does not modify the content of any web page. It simply disregards a request for content whose address matches any of the blocking rules that you have specified. Finally, shielding your online privacy on a single computer is not enough in a networked, multi-computer household. With Surfer Protection Program, all of your networked machines can direct their requests to a single copy of the software running on the computer that is connected to the Internet so that no one is at risk of being profiled.

Surfer Protection Program is

  • totally self-contained and self-sufficient. It will never contact our web servers to receive or transmit data on its own. It responds only to software applications running on your computer that have designated Surfer Protection Program to act as their proxy. These applications might include your browser, e-mail, or other tools — such as Microsoft Word — that have opened a document containing a web bug.
  • compatible with the Windows 95/98/NT/2000/XP operating systems.
  • easily installed or uninstalled on your computer. Our software uses the standard Windows Installer, as well as the "Add/Remove Programs" application for Uninstallation.
  • compact. Surfer Protection Program requires less than 1 MB of disk space with documentation, and less than 0.5MB of disk space without documentation.
  • efficient. The program utilizes only 2.6MB of memory when running. A mere 0.4MB of additional memory is required to maintain a Message Log containing 5 pages of historical information.

Surfer Protection Program was developed because we believe that no one should be subjected to profiling, and that everyone should be afforded the opportunity for informed consent regarding their online privacy.

Safeguarding your online privacy with Surfer Protection Program can be accomplished in three easy steps.

  1. Familiarize yourself with it. During this step, you can
    • take a structured Virtual Tour, where we'll introduce you to the software and its features. The entire tour occurs on a single page; so please be patient while it is downloaded to your browser.
    • further acquaint yourself with the software during a Simulated Tour, by browsing through a series of Surfer Protection Program pages that have been frozen in time during a simulated browsing session. Please remember that none of these pages are functional, although the entire User Manual is included within the Simulated Tour should you be interested in reviewing it. The tour begins as if you had just invoked the Surfer Protection Program control panel from Walmart'sŪ home page.
    • read our Frequently Asked Questions page.
  2. Start driving it. Don't just take our word for it. Download a fully functional, free copy to judge its effectiveness and ease-of-use for yourself.
  3. Use it and enjoy the free license.

If you surf the web, you can't afford to be without Surfer Protection Program.
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