I never really did post on proxy forums, I admit. I was one of those 'ungrateful' leechers who went to forums and got proxy lists out of them. I would have continued to be like that until I figured out one thing, which all those of my former type may not know.

Finding those proxies takes a lot of hours of dedicating your computer/server to scanning for these proxies. I tried to scan some ranges, and only got maybe 20 in an hour. Folks that raed this, that's hard work and a lot of hours, and now I feel ashamed for doing what I used to do.

I especally feel sorry for doing it to this site, who Insomnia is a good site owner that seems to look at the positive side of things rather than the negative. I thank him for all the lists he never missed posting every day.

I do want to start helping, but I'm afraid I'm not as good of a scanner as most. If someone can give me a few good ranges and ports to scan, I will dedicate myself to posting some lists of my own.

It is good to see you are seeing it from the Scanners point of view, and excellent to hear you wish to give scanning a go. When you are new to it, finding only a couple of new Proxies per day is more than enough to deserve recognition. My advice is to find some local IP ranges to scan at first, such as the Class B of your current IP, eg.. 192.168.*.*. These will respond faster and as a result your success rate should be a little better. If all else fails these Proxies will be better for you to use anyway. Find out some friends IP's and scan their ranges aswell.

The biggest problem with suggesting 'good' ranges is that most people have normally scanned them already, so you never find any fresh Proxies. As for ports, the common ones are always worth a shot, 80, 8080, 3128 etc...

Remember, finding 20 fresh Proxies is far better than what 99% of the people in the Proxy scene today will do.

HTTP proxies are good, but I normally use socks personally. For the program I use with my browser, they're more reliable than normal proxies. Thank you for the info, I think I'll try to scan that way though.

But what I truly want to know is with the socks IPs, how do you scan accurately for high ports? Being as there are so many of them and no high ports are common except for 50050, 50033, and 32167. Do you just scan for IPs and then portsccan the ones you find? Do they come from sites?

Socks are generally a bit diferent. The Socks Proxies normally come from Socks Trojans. Basically people make small Viruses purely to setup box's as Socks Servers and then make them report back to a central location. As a result there is rarely a nice way to find them unless you manage to get a subscription service.

try these socks5 ranges...

afternoon - 500+ socks5 [ Indian Ranges ] so try indian time.
203.115.63.1 - 203.115.95.255
61.246.129.0 - 61.246.135.255
61.17.160.1 - 61.17.255.255
210.211.128.1 - 210.211.255.255
221.128.128.0 - 221.128.255.255
202.177.224.1 - 202.177.255.255
220.224.1.1 - 220.224.255.255
220.226.1.1 - 220.226.255.255
203.187.197.1 - 203.187.255.255
203.76.176.1 - 203.76.255.255
61.11.67.1 - 61.11.83.255

evening(Indian TIME) - 500+ socks5
201.1.1.1 - 201.1.255.255
201.13.1.1 - 201.13.255.255
201.26.1.1 - 201.26.255.255
201.27.1.1 - 201.27.255.255
201.42.1.1 - 201.42.255.255
201.43.1.1 - 201.43.255.255
201.236.200.1 - 201.236.200.255
200.206.210.1 - 200.206.255.255
200.207.56.1 - 200.207.255.255


scan anytime these socks5 ranges
59.92.40.0 - 59.92.255.255
59.93.1.1 - 59.93.255.255
59.94.0.0 - 59.94.255.255
59.95.0.1 - 59.95.255.255