What are the Issues in Surfing Securely

The main areas of concern are usually the following: 1)ISP Logs which contain your IP address and every web site you visit. 2) Web Server Logs - which record your IP address 3) HTTP Transport - unfortunately the majority of web traffic is in plain text so can be intercepted and read easily. So whats the Solution and will it cost me? The easiest part to protect yourself against is the Web server logs, if you use anonymous proxy surfing your IP address will not be recorded in the web servers you visit. Setting up a proxy server manually is quite simple in IE you will find it in Tools/Internet Options/Connections/LAN Settings - just input the address of the anonymous proxy and that's it. The problem is finding a free proxy to use as the majority are hacked or misconfigured servers and are nearly always painfully slow.