Squid Proxy - Hiding the proxy

I have setup squid proxy on an ubuntu server with DB authentication. However, whilst connected to the proxy, if I visit http://www.whatismyip.com/ it still shows my ACTUAL ip address. How can I configure Squid to hide my IP and to hide the fact it's using squid.

Solution 1:

By default, Squid has Forwarded-For turned on. For more info on what X-Forwarded-For is, have a gander at the Wikipedia article.

In your situation, you'll want to edit your Squid configuration file to include this line: forwarded_for off and then restart /etc/init.d/squid restart (assuming a RPM-based distro).