To quickly toggle back and forth between proxy enabled and disabled, you can change the "General" settings to enable quick switch and select Home Proxy for Profile 2 on the binary switch.
The port should be 22 unless you've done something special to your SSH server
Enter the Host name and select SSH as the connection type.Once you have PuTTY downloaded, start it up. PuTTY is a free Telnet/SSH client for Windows. I'm going to assume you already have that going for you. The following instructions will help you set up PuTTY and SSH on a Windows computer to secure traffic out of wherever you are.įirst, you'll have to have a computer you can SSH into.
Worried that network monitoring at school or work is going to reveal passwords? How much do you trust the wireless Internet at the airport? If the network is unencrypted (and possibly even if it is), anyone could be watching your Internet browsing and maybe pick up a password or two.