Hacked or paranoid?

[yeponlyone]

What happens if you use the Tor browser? ....or you can boot up with a Linux OS to test if the OS is compromised. {Ubuntu}

I ussually use a Virtual machine - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_machine to test things, when I run into funny things with my OS.

Hope this was helpfull. 

Tor is not the greatest as far as security.  You are better off buying a better one if you are going to run though a VPN.  I would go with a professional company.

As far as the virtual machine telling you, chances are not.  You would look for items such as HTTPS being stripped into HTTP version of site.  And web site certificates not being real.

Tor could help you increase security if you know how to do it
But, if you are going to run through a VPN, you should search trustable VPN. VPN could steal your data

Tor doesn't help to increase security, it increases privacy and somewhat decreases security. data transferred to the entry/exit node will not be encrypted. so if a https vulnerability is found, you can get hacked. many occurrence has been reported before. if you are looking for a nice and cheap vpn, go for privateinternetaccess, i like their vpn since they have pretty good speed and a great diversity of servers.

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[notlist3d]

What happens if you use the Tor browser? ....or you can boot up with a Linux OS to test if the OS is compromised. {Ubuntu}

I ussually use a Virtual machine - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_machine to test things, when I run into funny things with my OS.

Hope this was helpfull. 

Tor is not the greatest as far as security.  You are better off buying a better one if you are going to run though a VPN.  I would go with a professional company.

As far as the virtual machine telling you, chances are not.  You would look for items such as HTTPS being stripped into HTTP version of site.  And web site certificates not being real.

Tor could help you increase security if you know how to do it
But, if you are going to run through a VPN, you should search trustable VPN. VPN could steal your data

Tor doesn't help to increase security, it increases privacy and somewhat decreases security. data transferred to the entry/exit node will not be encrypted. so if a https vulnerability is found, you can get hacked. many occurrence has been reported before. if you are looking for a nice and cheap vpn, go for privateinternetaccess, i like their vpn since they have pretty good speed and a great diversity of servers.

I'm not referring to tor I don't consider tor to be secure.  You are the entry node with tor.  But exit node has always been a problem.

I am referring more to a enterprise option such as a lot of big companies have.  They have their own VPN set up where you can connect from home and you are on their network after.  This encrypts traffic and is much safer then TOR.

[Muhammed Zakir]

What happens if you use the Tor browser? ....or you can boot up with a Linux OS to test if the OS is compromised. {Ubuntu}

I ussually use a Virtual machine - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_machine to test things, when I run into funny things with my OS.

Hope this was helpfull. 

Tor is not the greatest as far as security.  You are better off buying a better one if you are going to run though a VPN.  I would go with a professional company.

As far as the virtual machine telling you, chances are not.  You would look for items such as HTTPS being stripped into HTTP version of site.  And web site certificates not being real.

Tor could help you increase security if you know how to do it
But, if you are going to run through a VPN, you should search trustable VPN. VPN could steal your data

You must make sure that the trustable VPN you use is logless or deletes log after some hours.

[Cruxer]

When I log into Cryptsy it shows the padlock on the address bar for https for a few seconds, then the padlock disappears. When the padlock is there if I click on the address bar it says "website does provide identity information" ... "Project investors"... "Certificate by Comodo" etc. When the padlock disappears it says "this website does not provide identity information". The address in the bar is always https cryptsy.com.

You can never be paranoid enough when it comes to security

[notlist3d]

What happens if you use the Tor browser? ....or you can boot up with a Linux OS to test if the OS is compromised. {Ubuntu}

I ussually use a Virtual machine - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_machine to test things, when I run into funny things with my OS.

Hope this was helpfull. 

Tor is not the greatest as far as security.  You are better off buying a better one if you are going to run though a VPN.  I would go with a professional company.

As far as the virtual machine telling you, chances are not.  You would look for items such as HTTPS being stripped into HTTP version of site.  And web site certificates not being real.

Tor could help you increase security if you know how to do it
But, if you are going to run through a VPN, you should search trustable VPN. VPN could steal your data

You must make sure that the trustable VPN you use is logless or deletes log after some hours.

I'm just talking about using where it encrypts over for example public wifi.  A enterprise solution such as many big companies do.  You connect to vpn remotly. 

Deletion is not as important as it's not for anything illegal.  And any reputable site it gets cookies etc, they will not be of much use hours later deleted or not.

[Muhammed Zakir]

I'm just talking about using where it encrypts over for example public wifi.  A enterprise solution such as many big companies do.  You connect to vpn remotly. 

Understood. Neither Tor nor VPN is secure enough. However, VPN is better than Tor when we consider many facts.

Deletion is not as important as it's not for anything illegal.  And any reputable site it gets cookies etc, they will not be of much use hours later deleted or not.

We don't use VPN & Tor just for security. We also use it for privacy and is better to get a logless VPN than others. If somehow, the log is leaked, IP attacks can be expected. With a logless VPN, we can secure ourselves from it. Even a smallest factor may result in biggest hazard.

[notlist3d]

I'm just talking about using where it encrypts over for example public wifi.  A enterprise solution such as many big companies do.  You connect to vpn remotly. 

Understood. Neither Tor nor VPN is secure enough. However, VPN is better than Tor when we consider many facts.

Deletion is not as important as it's not for anything illegal.  And any reputable site it gets cookies etc, they will not be of much use hours later deleted or not.

We don't use VPN & Tor just for security. We also use it for privacy and is better to get a logless VPN than others. If somehow, the log is leaked, IP attacks can be expected. With a logless VPN, we can secure ourselves from it. Even a smallest factor may result in biggest hazard.

I don't debate VPN is better then TOR I agree completely with you on that.

I argue what the use of a VPN can be.  Many buisness use them for security and privacy.  Lets say you have a work laptop connect at starbucks and use your VPN which puts you on your work network.  At starbucks if someone is trying to get data they will just see encrypted assuming it's connected to that work VPN.

Most enterprise VPN have history as companies keep LOTS of logs of what goes on in the network.  I'm talking about fortune 500 companies, not a ma/pa shop.

If your using a logless VPN your goal is to hide your activity.  With a nice work VPN your goal is to encrypt traffic and get you on your work network.

[SirChiko]

When I log into Cryptsy it shows the padlock on the address bar for https for a few seconds, then the padlock disappears. When the padlock is there if I click on the address bar it says "website does provide identity information" ... "Project investors"... "Certificate by Comodo" etc. When the padlock disappears it says "this website does not provide identity information". The address in the bar is always https cryptsy.com.

You are just paranoid but if you want to be sure then you may want to download spybot-search and destroy.
It's against spyware etc.