Many anonymous proxies earn cash by showing Google ads on the pages as you use their proxy. This sounds reasonable enough, doesn’t it?

Unfortunately some of these free web proxies web sites have flash-based ads that redirect surfers to malware scan sites. These sites then proceeded to “scan” computers while actually downloading malware in hidden folders on the hard drive.

Malware can hijack your PC, corrupt your registry, disable your task manager and take over your administrator rights. Malware can also deposit hidden self-writing executable files that run in the background, causing even more grief.

And the “free” access to an anonymous proxy just sounded so good. You are much better off when you follow the old saying that “if something sounds too good to be true, it probably is.”