Anonymizer, Inc. Total Net Shield Review

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TXCANDY's Review of Anonymizer, Inc. Total Net Shield

9th Apr 2008

Overall Rating

3 stars
  • Value for money
    2.5 stars
  • Ease of Set Up
    3 stars
  • Time Software Used
    1 - 6 Months
  • Ease of Use
    3.5 stars
Good Points

The trial product works just like the production version.


Bad Points

The biggest problem I had is the once the trial version expired I removed it. Or I thought I had. I don't recall all the sequence of events but somewhere along the line during the uninstall process it deleted parts of my operating system. It clobbered it so bad that it took out the system restore part. As I had lost my Windows reinstall CD I ended up buying a new computer.


General Comments

After I purchased the product for the new computer we had a power failure and Anonymizer forgot who I was. Whenever I started it up I kept getting some you don't own this product kind of message. I had to call support for help.

The status of the product is not very evident. There is a separate tab and the check boxes on that page must be reset every time one uses the product. They choices do not remain permanent. There is nothing to demonstrate that you are protected and not protected. Until I found the tab I ran unprotected many times.

And at times when it starts it locks up during the initialization process and you have to do a restart. Happens much more that necessary. And to it goes off downloading updates at times. It does not ask if you want to do it do it later it just does it. And if you hit the cancel button it does not respond.

And I get way too many Anonymizer unable to find proxy servers. I have to drop my net connection and kill Anonymizer and restart the connection and then Anonymizer. Again this is annoying and happens more than necessary.

Overall this is the first anonymizer product I have used but I am an old computer developer and in my professional opinion this product has some growing up to do. I didn't do much research into the product but if I find a similar product and if the trial version works better than Anonymizer I will not renew my subscription.

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