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Josh Collins
My IP shows in all my email headers and in newsgroup posts. Is there any way
to stop this?
to stop this?
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John Barnett - MVP
The current IP client address and IP name always show in
the headers of emails. They simply form a trace route
indicating the routers that the email has passed through.
The only way your own IP address would not show would be
if you were directing your email through a proxy server.
These people who love sending malicious viruses do a
similar thing in order to attempt to cover their tracks.
But even using this method the source can be traced. Ok
it may be slower, but it can be traced all the same.
As for current IP client address, i.e., 81.78.24.72,
unless you have a static IP address these numbers change
each and every time you log onto the internet. The one
above is my current IP address, as soon as i log off and
log on again it will have changed.
If you are particularly worried just make sure your
firewall is enabled, your anti virus software is up to
date and never, ever, open an email attachment that has
come from an unknown source.
Hope this helps
John Barnett - MVP
Associate Expert
the headers of emails. They simply form a trace route
indicating the routers that the email has passed through.
The only way your own IP address would not show would be
if you were directing your email through a proxy server.
These people who love sending malicious viruses do a
similar thing in order to attempt to cover their tracks.
But even using this method the source can be traced. Ok
it may be slower, but it can be traced all the same.
As for current IP client address, i.e., 81.78.24.72,
unless you have a static IP address these numbers change
each and every time you log onto the internet. The one
above is my current IP address, as soon as i log off and
log on again it will have changed.
If you are particularly worried just make sure your
firewall is enabled, your anti virus software is up to
date and never, ever, open an email attachment that has
come from an unknown source.
Hope this helps
John Barnett - MVP
Associate Expert
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purplehaz
Just a note here. If your on broadband(I've been on it for three years),
then your IP address rarely changes. Usually only once or twice a year or if
you reboot the modem.
The op could search google for spoof ip address. I found this real quick:
http://www.medasys.com/company/fr/mis/securite/avisoct02.htm
then your IP address rarely changes. Usually only once or twice a year or if
you reboot the modem.
The op could search google for spoof ip address. I found this real quick:
http://www.medasys.com/company/fr/mis/securite/avisoct02.htm
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Wesley VogelX
Josh;
One thing you can do so bots can't harvest your real address is to
modify it. Real people can figure out how to glean the real address. I see
you are using Outlook Express.
Try this: Open OE/Tools/Accounts/News/Properties/change
(e-mail address removed) to something like (e-mail address removed)
or whatever.
Hope this helps. Let us know.
Wes
One thing you can do so bots can't harvest your real address is to
modify it. Real people can figure out how to glean the real address. I see
you are using Outlook Express.
Try this: Open OE/Tools/Accounts/News/Properties/change
(e-mail address removed) to something like (e-mail address removed)
or whatever.
Hope this helps. Let us know.
Wes
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Alan
Hi John,
Someone once told me that it's up to each ISP to determine whether or not to
display IP's in message headers. The user doesn't have a choice, unless
he/she uses a spoofing program.
My ISP doesn't include the IP address when I post to Newsgroups using its
"news1.toast.net" server, as you'll see when you check my header.
In a minute, however, I'm going to post this same message using Microsoft's
server -- msnews.microsoft.com -- and I'm sure you will be able to see my
IP.
Alan
Someone once told me that it's up to each ISP to determine whether or not to
display IP's in message headers. The user doesn't have a choice, unless
he/she uses a spoofing program.
My ISP doesn't include the IP address when I post to Newsgroups using its
"news1.toast.net" server, as you'll see when you check my header.
In a minute, however, I'm going to post this same message using Microsoft's
server -- msnews.microsoft.com -- and I'm sure you will be able to see my
IP.
Alan
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Alan
Hi John,
Someone once told me that it's up to each ISP, or server, to decide whether
or not to display IP's in message headers. The user generally doesn't have a
choice, unless he/she uses a spoofing program.
My ISP doesn't include the IP address when I post to Newsgroups using its
"news1.toast.net" server.
In this post, I am using the msnews.microsoft.com server, and I'm sure you
will be able to see my IP.
Alan
Someone once told me that it's up to each ISP, or server, to decide whether
or not to display IP's in message headers. The user generally doesn't have a
choice, unless he/she uses a spoofing program.
My ISP doesn't include the IP address when I post to Newsgroups using its
"news1.toast.net" server.
In this post, I am using the msnews.microsoft.com server, and I'm sure you
will be able to see my IP.
Alan
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Josh Collins
Thank you all for your help.
John, I use dial up. Every time I log on, only the last digit in the IP
changes. I have been writing them down to verify this. For example,
208.34.214.93 will later be 208.34.214.94 and then maybe 208.34.214.95. The
last digits are just incrementing.
John, I use dial up. Every time I log on, only the last digit in the IP
changes. I have been writing them down to verify this. For example,
208.34.214.93 will later be 208.34.214.94 and then maybe 208.34.214.95. The
last digits are just incrementing.
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Josh Collins
Apparently I was wrong. The 4th and 5th time I wrote the IP address down,
they were completely different. I guess the first 3 times I wrote them down
and only the last digits changed it was coincidence.
they were completely different. I guess the first 3 times I wrote them down
and only the last digits changed it was coincidence.
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Alex Nichol
Wesley said:One thing you can do so bots can't harvest your real address is to
modify it. Real people can figure out how to glean the real address. Isee
you are using Outlook Express.
The one he is concerned about is the numeric one in 'NNTP Posting host'.
Posting on my broadband this consists of a node of my ISP's net followed
by my (cable) numeric IP address, whether I post to their NNTP server
(though that results in just the numeric bit) or through them to the
msnews servers as posting point.
As it is not stable for dialup, I doubt if there is any use being made
currently by spammers. It might be a way for worm attackers to try to
push things like BLAST through, but they probably just broadcast to
every possible address in the IP domain.
So it is not something to be especially bothered about, particularly if
like the OP it is dialup and hence changing day-to-day. Broadband users
can clear and renew the lease on it if they are suspicious it *has* been
abused. The one to bother about is the readable one in From and in
Reply to - those are the ones picked up by spammers. But they are the
ones that the user can set in his news program, as indeed he seems to
have done (Reply to . . . (e-mail address removed))
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Wesley VogelX
Oh.
The one he is concerned about is the numeric one in 'NNTP Posting host'.
Posting on my broadband this consists of a node of my ISP's net followed
by my (cable) numeric IP address, whether I post to their NNTP server
(though that results in just the numeric bit) or through them to the
msnews servers as posting point.
As it is not stable for dialup, I doubt if there is any use being made
currently by spammers. It might be a way for worm attackers to try to
push things like BLAST through, but they probably just broadcast to
every possible address in the IP domain.
So it is not something to be especially bothered about, particularly if
like the OP it is dialup and hence changing day-to-day. Broadband users
can clear and renew the lease on it if they are suspicious it *has* been
abused. The one to bother about is the readable one in From and in
Reply to - those are the ones picked up by spammers. But they are the
ones that the user can set in his news program, as indeed he seems to
have done (Reply to . . . (e-mail address removed))
Wesley said:One thing you can do so bots can't harvest your real address is to
modify it. Real people can figure out how to glean the real address. I see
you are using Outlook Express.
The one he is concerned about is the numeric one in 'NNTP Posting host'.
Posting on my broadband this consists of a node of my ISP's net followed
by my (cable) numeric IP address, whether I post to their NNTP server
(though that results in just the numeric bit) or through them to the
msnews servers as posting point.
As it is not stable for dialup, I doubt if there is any use being made
currently by spammers. It might be a way for worm attackers to try to
push things like BLAST through, but they probably just broadcast to
every possible address in the IP domain.
So it is not something to be especially bothered about, particularly if
like the OP it is dialup and hence changing day-to-day. Broadband users
can clear and renew the lease on it if they are suspicious it *has* been
abused. The one to bother about is the readable one in From and in
Reply to - those are the ones picked up by spammers. But they are the
ones that the user can set in his news program, as indeed he seems to
have done (Reply to . . . (e-mail address removed))
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