Advanced Onion Router is designed to be a client for OR network and intended to be an improved alternative for Tor+Vidalia+Privoxy bundle for Windows users. It is able to "force" a program and its plugins to use the Tor proxy regardless of its configured proxy settings.

Onion Routing is a distributed overlay network designed to anonymize TCP-based applications like web browsing, secure shell, and instant messaging. Clients choose a path through the network and build a circuit, in which each node (or “onion router” or “OR”) in the path knows its predecessor and successor, but no other nodes in the circuit. Traffic flows down the circuit in fixed-size cells, which are unwrapped by a
symmetric key at each node (like the layers of an onion) and relayed downstream.

What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]

· corrected a change from version 0.3.0.6 in tor_addr_port_parse() that caused it to return errors when parsing proxy IP addresses
· improved the search algorithm for addresses that are added to the context menus related to strings selected in the "Debug" window
· all router selection dialogs will show bandwidth capacities instead of bandwidth rates for routers that are not banned
· the lists with favorite routers and with banned routers are no longer limited to 65536 characters
· added instructions for using TorChat with AdvOR and configuration samples to AdvOR\Help\TorChat (readme.txt, AdvOR.ini and torrc.txt)