Vanguard Wrote:
> "kerry85" kerry85.205p2i@pcbanter.net wrote in message
> news:kerry85.205p2i@pcbanter.net...
>
> 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.

Thank you very much for your input. As I was discussing this with
someone else in my ISP they had the some infor and opinion. Have a
wonderful holiday.


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kerry85