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As a security professional I am always concerned about my logs left on the servers running on the Internet. Couple months ago I heard something about the TOR network and never give at any attention to have a better look than just quickly read on their website. This evening I installed the local Vidalia Bundle but it still didn’t fulfill my needs to quickly tunnel other TCP based applications like Remote Desktop Protocol (RPD) though TOR network. 

After some research on Google and TOR wiki pages and found out this nice appliance called JanusVM. I downloaded the 20MB zip file and put it on my Intel Quad Core server running VMWare Workstation 6.0. After two minutes the appliance was up and running.

Screenshot from my appliance. I entered option 4 and created new vpn account.

Then I went back to my Windows XP machine and created new VPN connection to the JanusVM.

The JanusVM VPN tunnel was running and I started IE and went to Google. Entered a search for my ip address and lucky me my request came from Germany

Final test with mstsc.exe client to one of the RDP server on the Internet and I was successfully logged on with a nice IP address. 

This is working fine for me and my requirements. I would like to mention the latency. Yes, it is slow and don’t think to download a CD. Latency from China is also bad, but go back to the VMWare player/workstation and choose option5 to recreate the circuit.