Anonymous browsing provider The Onion Router, or “Tor” for short, warns legitimate users that if they want to browse the Internet anonymously from now on, Windows OS Exclusion Have to. The company made the announcement following a recent cyber attack aimed at Tor’s Windows users. Tor says that if Windows could collect this data from customers, it would be possible to find out the identities of the users based on it.

Previous versions of the Firefox browser, 16.0.6, have also been reported to be vulnerable to such attacks. But 6 Of attack The Onion Router could not provide any information on who was behind the scenes.

Malicious code is applied to the hosting servers of some websites that can only be accessed through the Tor network. These servers are owned by a company called “Freedom Hosting”. Earlier, in 2011, anonymous hackers attacked Freedom Hosting sites. At the time, the hacker group accused the service provider of hosting large amounts of child pornographic content.

The idea is to identify who is viewing or exchanging these child porn images using Freedom Hosting. Cyber ​​attack May have been the purpose.

However, spokespersons for the Tor project insisted that Freedom Hosting had no such connection with them. In addition, legal users of the project are advised not to use Windows as any action against Freedom Hosting may reveal their identities.