If you want to use Tor for anonymous web browsing, please use <a href="<page projects/torbrowser>">Tor Browser</a>. It comes with readily configured Tor and a browser patched for better anonymity. To use SOCKS directly (for instant messaging, Jabber, IRC, etc),
you can point your application directly at Tor (localhost
port 9050), but see <a href="<wikifaq>#SOCKSAndDNS">this FAQ
port 9050), but see <a href="<page docs/faq#TBBSocksPort">this FAQ
entry</a> for why this may be dangerous. For applications
that support neither SOCKS nor HTTP, take a look at <a href="https://code.google.com/p/torsocks/">torsocks</a>
or <a href="http://www.dest-unreach.org/socat/">socat</a>.
