Advanced Onion Router is designed to be a client for OR network and intended to be an improved alternative for Tor+Vidalia+Privoxy bundle for Windows users. It is able to "force" a program and its plugins to use the Tor proxy regardless of its configured proxy settings.
Onion Routing is a distributed overlay network designed to anonymize TCP-based applications like web browsing, secure shell, and instant messaging. Clients choose a path through the network and build a circuit, in which each node (or “onion router” or “OR”) in the path knows its predecessor and successor, but no other nodes in the circuit. Traffic flows down the circuit in fixed-size cells, which are unwrapped by a
symmetric key at each node (like the layers of an onion) and relayed downstream.
What's New in This Release:
· [tor-0.2.2.39] Fix an assertion failure in tor_timegm() that could be triggered by a badly formatted directory object. Bug found by fuzzing with Radamsa. Fixes bug 6811; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
· [tor-0.2.2.39] Do not crash when comparing an address with port value 0 to an address policy. This bug could have been used to cause a remote assertion failure by or against directory authorities, or to allow some applications to crash clients. Fixes bug 6690; bugfix on 0.2.1.10-alpha.
· corrected: buffer overflow when showing intercepted processes in the system tray menus
· corrected: a huge list of command line parameters for an intercepted process could had caused a buffer overflow in AdvOR.dll
· address map registrations are now scheduled when they are changed from the "Associate addresses" page
· new configuration option: SocksAuthenticator
· new option on the "Proxy" page: "User:password" (SocksAuthenticator) that allows restricting the access to the local proxy with an username:password comb...