Interestingly enough you aren't using it to login here. But, I am not questioning your integrity.

I am in the process of researching and studying the rapid growth of these proxies being made available on the ports mentioned in this thread (as well as a few other uncommon ones).

It is quite possible that these are all a form of a Proxy Trojan. It has been reported that when they work, they work very fast. However, they don't seem to be able to handle many connections and many times in order to get them to work the user needs to refresh his/her browser numerous times.

If you look at the hostnames associated with nearly all of these proxies, they belong to ISPs around the world. This indicates to me that they are being hosted (perhaps unsuspectingly on computers like yours and mine). It has also been reported that when these proxies test as working, all of them appear to have CONNECT ability.

What I cannot figure out at this point is why they work for some people, and not for others (me for example). By "work" I mean they are usable and test as anonymous when using proxy testing software.

For those of you that might not understand what a Proxy Trojan is, I offer the following brief definition:

It launches a proxy server on the victim's machine without the knowledge or consent of the user.

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