"kerry85" <kerry85.205p2i@pcbanter.net> wrote in message
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> I have done a free firewall scan and i was told that my incoming IP
> address is known and i am vulnerable. how can i change this? Thanks


They want to scare you into buying something from them, don't they? They
issue this alert and yet they sell absolutely nothing on their site? Didn't
think so.

Your IP address will *always* be known to whichever host you connect.
Otherwise, how would that host know where to send back the packets that you
requested, like the web page that you want to download into your browser?

Also, if you enable Javascript in the browser (for the visited site if it is
rendered in a less secure zone) then it can find the IP address for your
host and submit the data back to the server. Either disable Javascript, up
the restrictions in the Internet security zone and put the trusted sites in
the Trusted Sites zone, or put the bad site into the Restricted Sites
security zone. Personally I would like to have IE use the Restricted Sites
zone on the first visit to a site (where its history is used to determine if
a visit is the first one) so you are secure BEFORE you visit there and then
make it easy to switch to the Internet zone if you want to give that site
more freedom (and also opt to add it to a whitelist for the Internet zone).
I actually know a programmer that had something like this but he abandoned
it because he had to spend more time on his other products. Damn.