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by kylebland

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hello everybody, i am just wondering what are the dissavantages of using proxies because i know alittle about them but i have heared they cause harm to your computer is this true??

please tell me every thing u know about people who use proxies.

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by maniacman

What kind of proxy are you talking about in the first place? Web server proxies don't harm PCs', but that can slow down the web traffic as it goes through the proxy and gets filtered by policies and such. The more policies and checks in place, the more processing has to be done on the traffic and the more things slow down. I'd still like to know what dumbass told you that proxies cause any sort of damage to PCs.

by dr dij

since without proxies your users

1) can't be controlled unless you block with firewall
2) they respond to pings from trojan scanners and can be infected very quickly if no address translation

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