General Discussion - IP address capture

Author

IP address capture

adam salam

2003-12-27, 4:06 pm

Hi there

I am tired from some web sites capture my IP address

Is there any tool or technique I can use to stop them from doing that?

thanks

Boulware5

2003-12-27, 4:14 pm

Yeah...surf anonymously through a proxy.

Check out...

http://www.the-cloak.com/anonymous-surfing-home.html
http://www.anonymizer.com/

azimuth40

2003-12-27, 4:35 pm

quote:
Originally posted by adam salam
Hi there

I am tired from some web sites capture my IP address

Is there any tool or technique I can use to stop them from doing that?

thanks

No! If they did not have your IP address then how would they respond to your request for information, namely the web page that you asked for?

If it really bothers you then there are pay sites that will do an IP masquerade substituting their IP for yours. The masquerade site still gets your IP however. You log onto their site and forward your surfing requests through them. There are probably still a few free ones around but not as many as in years past. Anyhow someone always has your IP it is basically how TCP/IP works.

Buy the way the following picture panics some people.

http://www.danasoft.com/vipersig.jpg

oops I see Boulware5 answered already. I had to answer the telephone before I sent it. Oh well he found you a couple of masquerade sites.

adam salam

2003-12-27, 5:12 pm

quote:
Originally posted by azimuth40
No! If they did not have your IP address then how would they respond to your request for information, namely the web page that you asked for?

If it really bothers you then there are pay sites that will do an IP masquerade substituting their IP for yours. The masquerade site still gets your IP however. You log onto their site and forward your surfing requests through them. There are probably still a few free ones around but not as many as in years past. Anyhow someone always has your IP it is basically how TCP/IP works.

Buy the way the following picture panics some people.

http://www.danasoft.com/vipersig.jpg

oops I see Boulware5 answered already. I had to answer the telephone before I sent it. Oh well he found you a couple of masquerade sites.

Thanks Boulware5 , thanks azimuth40

azimuth40, I know TCP/IP front and back, you know

, this is the least an mcsa and ccna, like me should know

but what I need is exactly the stuff presented by Boulware5.

azimuth40

2003-12-27, 6:07 pm

quote:
Originally posted by adam salam
Thanks Boulware5 , thanks azimuth40

azimuth40, I know TCP/IP front and back, you know , this is the least an mcsa and ccna, like me should know

but what I need is exactly the stuff presented by Boulware5.

I'm sure that you do or you could not have got through ccna. Still I run across techs all the time that think there is something built in to let you turn it off without a third party. "It must be in the spec somewhere etc." Then someone responds with rethink that. Thats why I posted the little picture.

There have been horror stories with these anonymizer sites in the past where the cure was worse than the problem. Guaranteed spam lists, hack attempts, trojans, capturing secure traffic etc. I assume that is the reason many of them, even the pay ones have disappeared.

adam salam

2003-12-28, 7:49 am

quote:
Originally posted by azimuth40
I'm sure that you do or you could not have got through ccna. Still I run across techs all the time that think there is something built in to let you turn it off without a third party. "It must be in the spec somewhere etc." Then someone responds with rethink that. Thats why I posted the little picture.

There have been horror stories with these anonymizer sites in the past where the cure was worse than the problem. Guaranteed spam lists, hack attempts, trojans, capturing secure traffic etc. I assume that is the reason many of them, even the pay ones have disappeared.

Thanks for your alert about anonymizer sites, that will be a big problem if that is the case: Guaranteed spam lists, hack attempts, trojans, capturing secure traffic etc

please if you have any other technique or a link for that provide it.

If I am trying to search about that in the Internet, what do you think the keyword I can use?

thanks

Tech Ranger

2003-12-28, 8:23 am

NAT plus a good firewall. Or ISA Server.

azimuth40

2003-12-28, 10:22 am

quote:
Originally posted by adam salam
Thanks for your alert about anonymizer sites, that will be a big problem if that is the case: Guaranteed spam lists, hack attempts, trojans, capturing secure traffic etc

please if you have any other technique or a link for that provide it.

If I am trying to search about that in the Internet, what do you think the keyword I can use?

thanks

My comment was only to warn you to really really checkout the service that you pick. If it is free then find out what is in it for them because bandwidth is not free. Never route HTTPS through one. The danger is not as great as it was a couple of years ago because white hat hackers have exposed lots of them. However on the internet it is safer to be slightly paranoid.

As for what to search try "anonymous surfing" or "Proxy surfing" on google.com, ask.com, or msn.com search.

RussS

2003-12-28, 3:18 pm

As long as you are using TCP/IP on the internet it is possible to trace you to your source IP address.
Proxy servers, anonymous proxy sites, firewalls etc are all good tools for making that task extremely difficult, however if someone with the right clout to obtain logs from anonymous proxy sites wanted to find you, believe it - they would.
They may not be able to trace it down to your exact computer, but they would be able to trace it to your ISP, and from there can identify the source IP address or network.
Recently a hacker who had set up only a few trojans to bounce his attacks from was caught by back tracking.
Just like virus's - the only way to be 100% safe is to have a single computer not connected to a network, kept in a locked room

adam salam

2003-12-28, 3:46 pm

quote:
Originally posted by Tech Ranger
NAT plus a good firewall. Or ISA Server.

But even if I am using NAT or Firewall, I could be traced, cause my Internet interface NAT or Firewall will get a private IP address to access the internet and that IP could be captured

and that pointing to my gateway........and....and you know the rest..

what do you think

quote:
Originally posted by RussS
As long as you are using TCP/IP on the internet it is possible to trace you to your source IP address.
Proxy servers, anonymous proxy sites, firewalls etc are all good tools for making that task extremely difficult, however if someone with the right clout to obtain logs from anonymous proxy sites wanted to find you, believe it - they would.
They may not be able to trace it down to your exact computer, but they would be able to trace it to your ISP, and from there can identify the source IP address or network.
Recently a hacker who had set up only a few trojans to bounce his attacks from was caught by back tracking.
Just like virus's - the only way to be 100% safe is to have a single computer not connected to a network, kept in a locked room

That is exactly what I think.

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