Although there are currently a large number of services and applications that promise to be the ideal solution for that our Windows operating system is completely safe, there will always be a hacker who is interested in the information of a certain computer. If we have suggested in the headline a privacy strengthened to the maximum with DNSCrypt, at least that is what those who are developers of this little tool recommend.
You can find it in different Internet environments, although with different modes of applicability and use; In this article we will mention one of the easiest methods that you can adopt to install and configure DNSCrypt, something that we will do step by step and that will be the solution so that absolutely no one can check what you have hosted on your computer from outside your computer, that is, from anywhere in the world using a simple Internet connection.
Why use DNSCrypt to encrypt the information on my computer?
Those who have presented different proposals for DNSCrypt as a security application suggest that each and every one of the data of a specific computer where the tool is installedThey cannot be reviewed absolutely by anyone from outside; This is because this small application will encrypt all the data that may be going out or coming in through our conventional network port (LAN) or wireless (Wi-Fi), something that we will explain how to do in this article.
Previously we will give a slight example to the reader; If at any given time you have problems with your Internet connection on your computer, you can make a simple call to your service provider. If you have connected to the same network the laptop, an Android tablet, another iPad, a desktop computer and perhaps an Android TV Box, each of these devices are detected by the service provider, although this does not mean that they can explore the content of your equipment. What they can do is know the pages you are browsing, something that is used by some firms to block them by configuring their respective DNS. So what if an internet service provider can see this information? Imagine what a hacker specialized in the computer that is of your interest can do.
For this reason, below we will suggest you step by step what you should do to protect all the information on your computer, something that cannot be easily seen by anyone because you would be encrypting your computer's communication access point to the Internet.
Install and configure DNSCrypt
Due to the fact that some kind of problems could arise with the installation and configuration of this small tool, from the beginning we will suggest have to create a restore point; We have worked for this article with Windows 8.1, there being a small variation in the procedure (especially at startup) in previous versions such as Windows XP or Windows 7:
- We start our Windows 8.1 operating system
- If we have jumped to the Desktop, we press the Windows key to go to the Starting screen.
- There we write the word «Restore point«.
- A result will appear that will suggest perform a restore point, option that we will have to select.
- Our window will open immediately. System Properties.
- We select the button at the bottom of the window that says «Create… »And we put a name for our new Restore point.
- We go to the following link to download DNSCrypt (you can download the executable or the compressed file in Zip format)
- We double-click the executable file.
- Immediately we will be asked for the place where the content of said executable will be decompressed.
- We go to the place where the files were unzipped and we double-click the executable that you can admire in the image below.
- The DNScript interface window will appear immediately.
- There we will have to choose the adapter (or adapters) that we use in our computer to connect to the Internet.
- At the bottom we select the Service provider (a good option is OpenDNS).
- Finally we just press the button that says Activate (Enabled).
- Now we will only have to close the window.
Those are the only steps we have to take to protect our computer from any external invasion that comes from the Internet; you won't find absolutely a single trace of DNScript, as the tool does not host any type of icon in the Tool TrayYes, there is no possibility of uninstalling it either, although you can see its presence if you call the Task Manager and look for it in the tools that run in the background.
How to disable or disable DNScript?
Well, if at a certain moment you need to disable this service for whatever reason you think is convenient, you would only have to:
- Go to the Control Panel.
- In the search field write «management tools«.
- Search the «Services»And double click.
- From the new window search for the service «dnscript-proxy«
- Right-click it and choose «Properties«.
In this window in which we will find ourselves at this moment you will find a few options in the "Start type". By default the option «automatic«, Being able to choose any other that you want and among those that are present both to disable or manual.
If something goes wrong we recommend that you use to the restore point that we created at the beginning, something that will bring Windows back to the state it was in before DNScript installation and configuration.