Advanced Onion Router

0.3.1.5 for Windows

Fernando Ortega

Force Windows programs to use a proxy to hide the real IP.

Freeware HTTP serving software download, reviewed by Fernando Ortega
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An alternative router to the official Tor bundle for Windows.

Thanks to the selfless work of the developers over at TOR, we are provided with a way to get around the horrible system of data collection in the United States and other countries. Programs like Tor Browser Bundle provide us all with a way to circumvent both censorship and government spy operations. Advanced Onion Router provides an alternative to the Tor Browser Bundle and allows its users to browse the web anonymously.

Advanced Onion Router itself will not provide you with a fast Internet connection and it will slow you down a bit, depending on your Internet Service Provide. With that in mind, it is a viable and working alternative to Tor and Vidalia.

In contrast to Tor Browser Bundle, Advanced Onion Router provides several advanced options of which are configurable by the user up front. At the end of the day though, the two programs work in a very similar way. Advanced Onion Router just provides an alternative to Tor Browser Bundle.

In the configuration of AOR, you can customize many features and the most useful is probably the banning function which is featured prominently. You may also active ISP filtering, blacklisting and advanced settings. Advanced Onion Router also includes a sandboxing feature which can essentially control specific programs and services.

Advanced Onion Router is not the best way to use the Onion network, but it certainly is an alternative which may be used and provides a streamlined way to configure usage of Onion browsing.

Features of Advanced Onion Router

  • AS path estimations for all circuits with the option to build only circuits that don't have AS path intersections.
  • All-In-One application - it can replace Tor, Vidalia, Privoxy/Polipo, cntlm and more.
  • All configuration files can be encrypted with AES.
  • Avoid using in same circuit nodes from the same countries.
  • Banlist for addresses and routers.
  • Better isolation between private identities (delete cookies from 5 supported browsers, expire an internal cookie cache, delete Flash/Silverlight cookies, generate new fake browser identity information and more).
  • Circuit builder that allows building circuits by specifying a node list and that can estimate good circuits.
  • Circuit length is optional and can be changed to have between 1 and 10 routers.
  • Circuit priorities can be changed from the "OR network" page.
  • HTTP header filtering that generates fake identity-dependent headers every time the identity is changed.
  • Nodes can be banned / added to favorites from any existing circuit or from router selection dialogs.
  • Point and click process interceptor that can redirect all connections of a program, disallow non-supported protocols and restrict some information about the local system (fake system time, fake local hostname, etc.).
  • Read-only mode, when running from read-only media - no files are written.
  • Supported proxy protocols: Socks5, Socks4, HTTP, HTTPS (all on the same port, autodetected).
  • Support for corporate (NTLM) proxies.

Compatibility and License

Advanced Onion Router is provided under a freeware license on Windows from VPN and proxy software with no restrictions on usage. Download and installation of this PC software is free and 0.3.1.5 is the latest version last time we checked.

What version of Windows can Advanced Onion Router run on?

Advanced Onion Router can be used on a computer running Windows 11 or Windows 10. Previous versions of the OS shouldn't be a problem with Windows 8 and Windows 7 having been tested. It comes in both 32-bit and 64-bit downloads.


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  2. Free VPN and Proxy Software
  3. Free VPN Software
  4. HTTP Serving Software
Advanced Onion Router has been picked by our editors as excellent.
We have tested Advanced Onion Router 0.3.1.5 against malware with several different programs. Please review the test results. We have not certified this program as clean. [Read more]