A SOCKS proxy can be set up from a system using an encrypted tunnel established via an SSH connection to an SSH server, e.g., see Creating a Socks Proxy Server with SSH. On a Microsoft Windows system, the free PuTTY telnet and SSH client software can be used to set up such a connection. After configuring PuTTY to establish a SOCKS proxy via its connection to the SSH server, any browser that supports SOCKS proxies, such as Internet Explorer, Chrome, Firefox, etc., can be configured to route its traffic to web servers via the SOCKS proxy.
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