Make: Online : Surf privately and anonymously with JanusVM

JanusVM is an open source VMware image that combines Ubuntu, Tor, dns-proxy-tor, Squid, Privoxy, and openvpn all into a convenient little package. Just load up the appliance in VMware and make a VPN connection to the virtual machine's IP. Once you've connected, all of your traffic (including DNS) will be localy encrypted and anonymized over Tor. This is incredibly useful for you road warriors and coffee shop surfers who don't trust the security of a public wifi network.

For windows machines, setup is incredibly easy. The JanusVM server has a network share with a .bat file on it that will automatically configure your VPN for you. Linux users have to set up the VPN connection manually but it's a fairly simple process. I've been trying to get this to work under the new VMware OS X client, but for some reason the network completely conks out as soon as I activate the VPN. If you get this working, let me know. I'll keep monkeying with it myself and let you know what I come up with.

JanusVM network security appliance for VMware - [via] Link

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Posted by: MePerson on June 15, 2007 at 1:47 PM

This is my guide to using JanusVM in qemu
First download and extract QEMU for Windows (Google it, first result)
Then copy JanusVM.vmdk to this directory.
Then open Command Prompt, cd to where QEMU is installed, and type:

qemu-img convert JanusVM.vmdk -O qcow2 JanusVM.img

When it is done, then type:

qemu -L . -m 80 -net nic -redir tcp:8118::8118 -boot c -hda JanusVM.img

It should now work. Set your browser's proxy settings to 127.0.0.1 and port 8118.

Second script (launcher script) has not been tested, if it doesn't work, play around with the -net settings.

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Posted by: tangent47 on June 15, 2007 at 3:25 PM

anyone gotten it to work in OS X yet?

Posted by: pavs.ma on July 3, 2007 at 5:40 AM

I am using this for my final presentation in my college in 2 weeks. Its about using proxy to bypass sonicwall content filtering system. This will be one of the three ways I will demonstrate in the presentation. At the end of the presentation I will show how this can also stop LAN users from sniffing packets.

I read about it here first so thanks. I will post a paper onthe presentation after it's over in my site www.linuxhaxor.net/blog

pavs

Posted by: Chris Weiss on March 8, 2008 at 10:18 AM

Still looking for anyone who's gotten this working with OS-X...

Posted by: Geeberd on March 14, 2008 at 12:45 PM

Can't get it to work on XP.

Posted by: nickganga on April 20, 2008 at 11:04 PM

Anyone been able to get it working with OS X yet?