TOR is an acronym for the onion router. In a nutshell it uses multiple routers to hide the originating IP address.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tor_%28anonymity_network%29 wiki entry. Onion routers are fairly slow. Not sure why anyone would send spam about TOR, doesn't make much sense. Mike On 9/6/07, Andy Gallant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > BTW, I also got a spam message with an evil link exhorting me to > download Tor. What can anyone tell me about Tor itself? > > Thanks in advance. > > -Andy > > > ************************************************************************ * ==> QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in <== * ==> the body of an email & send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <== * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ************************************************************************ * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header "X-No-Archive: yes" will not be archived ************************************************************************
