Hides your real IP address and other private information (your location, your ISP etc) by redirecting all of your network activity through special Internet computers, known as Proxy Servers. It uses special SOCKS protocol to communicate with proxy servers instead of communicating directly to target Internet resources. The proxy server, on its side, performs communication with target Internet resource on behalf of your application, but using its own IP address. This allows you to use your favorite network resources in a usual way, but hides your IP address and real location from anyone. You can, for example, surf the web or communicate through instant messenger, staying in your country, e.g. United States, but look to all other people like you are, for example, in Hong Kong or Japan. Sounds fantastic, but that´s the way how it really works!