If a company I use needs my URL to send a pop up to my computer is that the same as me giveing them my IP Address? And is that safe to do, or will that give them full access to my computer?
2007-03-01 02:42:53 · 5 answers · asked by mikeshahn71 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Other - Computers
The company is a VOIP phone company and the pop up that I want to recieve is my caller ID for incoming calls.
2007-03-01 02:52:29 · update #1
No IP address and url are different but in u r case before few years on the internet yahoo.com is typed in address bar as it's ip address after the development of internet DNS is introduced and cahnged that yahoo ip addresses to yahoo.com
2007-03-01 02:51:19 · answer #1 · answered by vijay 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
As the web sever, yes kind of. But some IPs have their URLs and some do not have URLs. One URL can have many IPs.
If your computer has it own static IP and has it own URL associated with the IP, then yes, your URL is also IP.
Even you give out URL/IP or not, your computer is still seen by others over Internet. You need to protect your computer with anti-virus, firewall, spamware, etc.
2007-03-01 10:57:48 · answer #2 · answered by Henry 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
IP address and URL are the same thing, they uniquely identify your computer on the internet. The IP address is a number while the URL is a name that is much easier to recall
2007-03-01 10:48:49 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes it kinda the same, ipaddress is the ip of your computer a url can be a domain or website with muti. ipaddress.
if it's a company you can trust it's ok , or if they are trying to help you with a problem on your computer, most of the time they have you do a web ex session, otherwise i would not give access, you should have a firewall on your pc.
2007-03-01 10:49:14 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
for definition:
http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/U/URL.html
Now I'm guessing but they either think you have a web page or yes they're reffering to your ip#.
Most people have dynamic assigned ip's from there internet provider, meaning you can log off, or unplug modem or reset (dsl) and come back in with different ip#.
If you have static ip it doesnt change, these are mostly business types.
As far as hacker,or bad things, the first step is to obtain someones ip#, but like i said thats the first step theres alittle more to do after that.
2007-03-01 10:52:27 · answer #5 · answered by MidnightRider 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋