I get freaked out about people when they say they can track you down by using your IP address...Is there anyway to stop it? Please and thanks
2007-08-10 09:35:24 · 6 answers · asked by Kelly 3 in Computers & Internet ➔ Security
I get freaked out about people when they say they can track you down by using your IP address...Is there anyway to stop it?I'm not all that great with computers so if you can explain. Please and thanks a bunch
2007-08-10 09:45:36 · update #1
Get a good firewall and a router with NAT. Make sure the firewall is set to prompt you to allow any incoming requests, or to automatically block incoming requests that you have not already approved.
2007-08-10 09:39:46 · answer #1 · answered by Mathsorcerer 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
at the start, no, there is not any useful way you could mask your IP address. Secondly, a individual ought to better than in all hazard tell the city you're from, or the final section while you're in a real small city in all hazard, yet your IP education isn't in a close-by 'telephone e book' variety spot that maximum individuals recognize the place to look. that's no longer something that the huge-unfold laptop person knows the thank you to do while it includes getting your IP address. and not utilising a particular application, or programming qualifications, they gained't be waiting to discover this address surely. additionally, with maximum ISP's that's no longer a static address, and could substitute each few months. the only way they might get precisely who you're is in the adventure that your ISP became into to grant it to them, and that's illegitimate, till they have been ordered to take action via a court docket of regulation. There are issues like proxy servers and stuff, yet in certainty, if somebody is clever sufficient to renowned the place to look, or the thank you to stipulate your IP address, they'll finally probable be waiting to artwork their way around your proxy server as properly.
2017-01-04 03:58:09 · answer #2 · answered by westbrook 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Oh you sound like me. I get paranoid too. Maybe you can get a fake one? Or a temporary one? I know nobody who actually looks up an IP address on their own time though unless they are bored. Even if they did, it would tell them only your ISP, country, state, city, and possibly zip code. So they couldn't actually find your house unless you were listed in the white pages and they knew your last name and then used the IP info to search within a city or something.
2007-08-10 09:46:50 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
You can use a special program that i use too. It's VIP Anonymity and this is just for people who don't want the others to know their IP-address. Download it here: www.vipdefense.com
hope, it'll help!!! :)
2007-08-10 10:40:22 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well, they can't really track you down, just to your ISP (which would usually be your state or city). Still, if you want to hide, use a proxy.
2007-08-10 09:41:04 · answer #5 · answered by magiscoder 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
get a firewall also get this www.vipdefense.com
2007-08-14 03:24:21 · answer #6 · answered by onehotmommy 79 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋