Yep just a scare tactic... Your ip can be found heaps of ways...even the email you sent to the list has details of your ip address in the header at the time you sent the email..by looking at the header in your original email I can see the hostname and domain of the machine you sent the original email from, and I can see the ip address you were on at the time you sent the email.
But back to the browser popups...your IP can be obtained several ways...using a few simple lines of java script in a web page will get your web browser to reveal the ip address it is using to access the net (and often if you are on a lan the browser will report your lan ip instead of your internet ip), web servers also know your ip and server side scripting languages like PHP, perl-cgi, etc can be used to get your ip address from environment variables which the web server creates when you access the site. I fail to see how that software could provide any real protection from anyone finding your ip address. I wouldn't be so concerned. On Sun, 2002-10-27 at 17:19, Alan L Tyree wrote: > This is not a linux only question, but I have been trying to get on top > of security problems. > > There was a commercial "alert" at a website I was visiting. It said that > my PC was broadcasting my internet address. It took me to a site selling > a windows product called Internet Alert. > > I thought that my address was always visible to websites that I visited > - how else can it send back information? > > Is this just one of the scare tactics that seem to be prevalent? > -- > ------------------------------------------------------ > Alan L Tyree [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.law.usyd.edu.au/~alant > Tel: +61 2 4782 2670 > Mobile: +61 419 638 170 > Fax: +61 2 4782 7092 > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ > More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
