Charon is (as always, in my opinion) the best overall proxy checker you can get your hands on. It's free, it does the job better than pretty much any other tool except arguably AAtools (which you have to pay for), and it runs cleanly without any extra hassle. Just go over your settings, paste in your list, and it's off and running. It does both HTTP and Socks, Internal or External Judging, and has a great filtering system. And this is how you run it:

Download: http://www.project2025.com/Charon.zip

You don't have to install it, just unzip the folder and get to work. Click the cartoon bull and you'll see this:



This is the main screen. On the first run, you just want to go down the list and configure all your settings at once. After this you really don't have to go in there very often if at all, except to change the Filters or check the Judges from time to time.



Nothing much to see here, the settings should (from what I recall) be fine as default. If you have something different, reference this picture and fix it. Skipping scan options (we're just using the check function), we get:



Note: Rhino, the creator of the program (so you can assume he knows what he's talking about), says

Originally Posted by _rhino_

My personal opinion is that you should use the internal judge. You can guarantee then that it won't suddenly become overloaded and start giving out cached results, or won't go down mid-test ... plus a few other potential benefits.

This bit was in the original post before I edited in Rhino's position on the matter. It's either/or, don;t try to do both, haha.
This is flavour country. Your own IP address should be at the top, and you'll want to select "External Judge". This lets you use a judge script outside your own box, which prevents all manner of problems and ensures a more accurate test. For threads and time-out you'll want somewhere between 15-30 generally, until you get more comfortable with what we're doing here and your own system's preferable setup. Threads is the amount of connections the checker can open at once while running through the list, and timeout is the amount of time it waits until it decides an IP is no good and the response is never coming. Retry is of course how many chances it gives an IP before it gives up and declares it Dead.

Depending on if you're running a check at that moment for HTTP, Socks, or just a hodgepodge list of both, you can deselect "Check proxies for HTTP" or "Check proxies for Socks" so as to ensure the checker won't waste any time when you already know what type the IPs you have are. Also, provided your system can run proxies on nonstandard ports (anything besides 1080 for Socks) there's no sense in not unchecking the "Limit proxies to ports" button.

For check against, you just want a site that will always be up. I prefer google.



The filter options are a list of IPs and wilcards that will pre-remove IPs you don't want from your list. The ones that come with Charon are solid, though there've been two solid improvements made recently that you should include:

http://www.dcsproxy.com/proxy-tools/...sion-list.html
This is an updated Planetlab filter, just copy the text and overwrite it with what's in your file.

http://www.dcsproxy.com/proxy-tools/...s-exclude.html
This is a list of UniqueInternetServices (makers of Proxyfirewall) IPs which may show up on your lists but will not be usable by you. To add this you must create a new filter file. Just open notepad, copy all the IPs in the above post, and paste them into the notepad file. Save it as "UniqueInternetServices.ini" and place it into the filterfiles folder in your charon folder and you're good to go. Don't forget to restart Charon and select it.



This is what was mentioned previously, about "External Judges". The Judges in question are all external scripts hosted on other people's servers, they check your IP and see if you're being properly masked by it or not. The list that comes with Charon is rather old by now, go to this wonderful post and select all of the judges labeled "AZ Environment variables 1.04". Read the post as well, it'll help.

After copying the judges, right-click the Proxy Judges window in Charon and select "Paste judges from clipboard. When that's sorted, click "Remove Duplicates" and then "Test Judges". You want to use the single most reliable and low-pinging azenv1.04 judge on the list, so find whichever one that is for you right-click it from the bottom list to the top. Just one, and Azenv1.04, remember.



Well about now you're pretty much done. Go to the left menu, click "Check anonymity of all proxies" and go make yourself a sandwich, your part is over. When the checker is done running through the IP list you'll have your very own list of personalized, guaranteed-up proxies.

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Pure flavour country.

Superb! Just what I needed

great post. . .I just started using charon after reading this, however I am finding a problem with it often shutting down on me during mid scan. I loose everything . . any suggestions on what might be doing this?

Never heard of that happening before. There's no error, it just kills itself?

What operating system are you running? Do you have decent ram?

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XP ram is low. . . the computer is a bit old . .. I'll try it on a 6 mos. old computer that is stacked to the hilt and see that solves the problem.

Ya, it could definitely be the ram, or for some oddball reason your connection settings. Try it on a machine with better ram, and if all else fails lower the amount of threads to cut down on the workload.

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if your on xp window you need to patch
the port to leech more proxy

Originally Posted by suade

if your on xp window you need to patch
the port to leech more proxy

http://www.lvllord.de/?lang=en&url=downloads#4226patch
Way to almost be useful.

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Originally Posted by apekillape

...

How long those it take to Check anonymity of all proxies once you have clicked on it

Depends on how big the list was to start with, now doesn't it?

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Hey. Thanks for this info. I wish I had found this section first when I joined BHW. Would have saved me $80 that I spent on proxy software and a dozen "FUCK YOU VISTA!" screaming fits. Its a shame that its not in the sidebar for the forum. This subforum is crucial reading for all noobs and for me personally its been the most useful thing in the whole forum to date. I say this because lack of quality proxies, and knowledge of how they work, etc has kept me from effectively applying so many other good methods shared here. Big thanks again.

BTW: I read on the dcs forum for about an hour too. Lorissa scares the Sh$%t out of me.

Hahaha, she's really nice too, she just doesn't take any shit or waste time with dumbness . Kind of an acquired taste.

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Really appreciate the time and effort you have put into setting this out step by step friggin awesum.

Followed your guide but hit the wall at the second last step so now im hangin in nowhere land need help.

After copying the judges, right-click the Proxy Judges window in Charon and select "Paste judges from clipboard. When that's sorted, click "Remove Duplicates" and then "Test Judges". You want to use the single most reliable and low-pinging azenv1.04 judge on the list, so find whichever one that is for you right-click it from the bottom list to the top. Just one, and Azenv1.04, remember.

heres what i did and the results that i got.

copied judges to judge not unused judges in options clicked "Remove Duplicates" and then "Test Judges" removed bads

selected the judge with the lowest azenv1.04 and moved others to unused judges closed options

selected check proxies - check anonymity - displayed selected judge but no test results - Anon:0 Non:0 Sock:0 Other:0 unlike your image=09checkeh7.png which shows tests Anon:0 Non:0 Sock:0 Other:2376 so where have I f**ked up ?

Now I have the ProxyFirewall set up but no proxys.

All help/suggestions welcome


Thanx

I had a similar problem. Give the docs a good read when you are awake and not disctracted. The docs are good, but just easy to miss a step. A couple of things that confused me was "proxy firewall spits out 4s and questionable 5s" should be interpeted as proxyfirewall uses sock5. First time I read it I thought it uses 4s. The other confusing thing I read was "there's no sense in not unchecking the "Limit proxies to ports" button." so I think it means don't check the box!

So after you check all the proxies they seem to only last about 24 hours, but my question is do they come back after some time? Would it be wise to just compile a large list and just check the same list over and over, do they die and resurrect a few days later?

what should we use for youtube? (I read somewhere that we have to look only for HTTP and not for SOCKS - is that the only limitation?)

That is a great post. Im about to start working with youtube and need to compile lists of proxies for increasing views.

Im bookmarking this one - Thanks again.

This is awesome. I'm going to try this with CL. Thanks!

i'm having a small or big problem depending on what it takes to fix it. my judges dont save on to the list of judges. i pasted them in there and checked them also but when i close the window and re-open it. the judges that i've added are no-longer listed. i only see the default judges again why is this? i reset the application no luck please help.

hey sorry i dont know how to edit but i just wanted to let you guys know that i've fixed the problem. if anyone is having the same problem my solution is to copy all the judges in the judge.ini folder into a plain text then add the AZ Environment variables 1.04 judges into that same plain txt. delete your judge.ini file. open charon and select the judge option. copy and past all judges from plain txt file into charon. next delete your duplicate files and test judges select the judge u want to use and close. this will then save your new list of judges and create a new judge.ini file

i hope it wasnt too confusing any questions pm me i'll be glad to help

I have no idea what you just said, but I'm glad you fixed your problem.

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Great post, I want to use it and find out more. Thanks

I did everything as in the first post but Charon finds me less than 40 proxies in a hour (50% of them are non anonymous). I am sure this shouldn't be so - so what could be the problem?

:/ I'm also having a hard time with this. Charon isnt displaying any proxies and the search ends after a text box flashes up confirming the judge i have selected works and such. What am i doing wrong?

Thanks for this tutorial!

Okay, how often can I use this filtered Charon list after I use it once with TI ?

I now have about 300 proxies all anon.

Thanks!

Originally Posted by apekillape

http://www.lvllord.de/?lang=en&url=downloads#4226patch
Way to almost be useful.

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What does this patch do?
I hv got WinXP SP2 with 504 MB RAM

wheres the threads that translates everything in this thread ? dam theres some stuff to lurn.

Originally Posted by megaplex

wheres the threads that translates everything in this thread ? dam theres some stuff to lurn.

Check http://www.blackhatworld.com/blackhat-seo/f101-proxies/
Make sure you go through all the sticky threads at the top, and you'll be in.

One more question Ape:

In step 3 (Connect Options) if I'm using DHCP can I leave the "my IP" field blank? Or should I keep entering the assigned IP each time it changes?

Originally Posted by loophole

What does this patch do?
I hv got WinXP SP2 with 504 MB RAM

Allows your machine to open more connections simultaneously. That way you can comfortably raise the number of threads when checking.

Originally Posted by loophole

One more question Ape:

In step 3 (Connect Options) if I'm using DHCP can I leave the "my IP" field blank? Or should I keep entering the assigned IP each time it changes?

You can just set it to check your IP before the test. It's important that the checker knows what your IP should be so that it can see when it's properly hiding. If you've got the wrong IP in there it'll skew your results.

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Great post, used this a few weeks ago but never thanked you, still using it now

I had just started using Charon yesterday and this great tutorial has saved some hair pulling.

The link to the patch seems to be redundant and leads to an ever refreshing page at hxxp://anonymizeit.com/

Originally Posted by waltermitty

The link to the patch seems to be redundant and leads to an ever refreshing page at hxxp://anonymizeit.com/

BHW auto-redirects live links through anonymize, it must have a weird reaction to the link.

Just copy/paste it and it'll be fine.

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great application, something i was looking for... and its free!

i think this is the best proxy tool ever . thanks for the step by step tut .

thanks for the guide man.. superb...

thanks..hv lookup at several blog..becos lack of bh apps tutorial..but it seem evryone like teaching here..many thanks..i'll use it with Pr storm software for backlinking..

when I click on check anonymity of all proxies nothing happens anyone have any ideas. thx for the help.

Awesome info! Man I love BHW. It's embarrassing how long I've been around internet marketing and didn't know the first thing about this. Thank you! ... and it's free!

Originally Posted by joejim

when I click on check anonymity of all proxies nothing happens anyone have any ideas. thx for the help.

You really don't provide that much in the way of detail here.

Have you actually loaded any proxies?
Using the internal or external judge(s)?
Checked the judge(s) work?
Tried checking a single proxy?
Sniffed the network connection to determine if anything is actually happening?

Rhino.

How can I write a script that checks anonimity of proxies in perl, for example?

Originally Posted by _rhino_

You really don't provide that much in the way of detail here.

Have you actually loaded any proxies?
Using the internal or external judge(s)?
Checked the judge(s) work?
Tried checking a single proxy?
Sniffed the network co
Hnnection to determine if anything is actually happening?

Rhino.

Ya that was pretty vague sorry.

Have you actually loaded any proxies? I copied both lists from the links at the beginning. I have it searching the internet now but its taking forever is that normal.
Using the internal or external judge(s)?I'm using external judges.
Checked the judge(s) work?Looks like the judges work.
Tried checking a single proxy?How do you check the proxy with charon? Or do you mean manually by inputting with ie?
Sniffed the network connection to determine if anything is actually happening? Not sure whatthis means its compiling a list but its taking forever.

thx for the help

Ok when I scan the internet I get about 10 proxies is that normal?How do you connect to the proxy with charon? Or do you mean manually by inputting with ie? thx.

I don't normally use Charon to leech or to connect, I use Proxyfirewall mainly.

What exactly do you mean by "scan the internet"?

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