Using Tor

Using Tor 

What is Tor

Tor is free software for enabling anonymous communication. The name is derived from an acronym for the original software project name "The Onion Router". Tor directs Internet traffic through a free, worldwide, volunteer overlay network consisting of more than seven thousand relays to conceal a user's location and usage from anyone conducting network surveillance or traffic analysis. Using Tor makes it more difficult for Internet activity to be traced back to the user: this includes "visits to Web sites, online posts, instant messages, and other communication forms". Tor's use is intended to protect the personal privacy of users, as well as their freedom and ability to conduct confidential communication by keeping their Internet activities from being monitored.

Download Tor 

https://www.torproject.org/projects/torbrowser.html.en

Step 1:

Download the file from above link and unzip it  using winrar or any other software in Windows 

For Linux 

Unzip the package by typing

tar xzf tor-X.X.X.XX.tar.gz

Step 2:

 Just go to and open tor browser by double clicking sub directory 

Step 3:

Just wait for few seconds to load and to configure relays based on your internet speed and start browsing anonymously 

For Linux 

Entire process is similar but if you need to run as root user

Open browser with textpad 

Search for 

if [ "`id -u`" -eq 0 ]; then
complain "The Tor Browser Bundle should not be run as root.  Exiting."
exit 1
fi

Comment or delete above lines and launch browser. 

But be careful while doing so it giving elevated privilege for tor browser 

If you had any errors even in Linux version please drop me a comment I will get back to you