how do you block people from knowing what operating system you areusing?

[Tyler W.]

how do you block people from knowing what operating system, web
browser...etc you are using?
and how can you tell which operating systems, web browsers ..etc people
are using through there ip address? or is it through some other way?

 

[Gordon]

how do you block people from knowing what operating system, web
browser...etc you are using?

When you are doing what? browsing the web? Posting to newsgroups? sending
email?

and how can you tell which operating systems, web browsers ..etc people
are using through there ip address?

You can't. All the IP address does is tell you what ISP people are using...

 

[Tim Slattery]

how do you block people from knowing what operating system, web
browser...etc you are using?
and how can you tell which operating systems, web browsers ..etc people
are using through there ip address? or is it through some other way?

The browser sends a USER_AGENT header that has information about the
browser and OS. But that header can be omitted or spoofed. IIRC, Opera
can be told to tell the web host that it's any other browser.

There is no reliable way for a web host to know what OS and browser
the client is using.

 

[Bob I]

Turn off your computer.

 

[Tyler W.]

how do you block people from knowing what operating system, web

browser...etc you are using?

When you are doing what? browsing the web? Posting to newsgroups? sending
email?

Browsing the web, posting to newsgroups, and sending email.


and how can you tell which operating systems, web browsers ..etc people

are using through there ip address?

You can't. All the IP address does is tell you what ISP people are using...

well someone on one of the linux usenet groups told me that I am running windows how would he know that and how do you find out what peoples ips are in usenet posts cause sometimes people abuse usenet so then I can report them to their isp if they refuse to stop.

 

[Gord Dibben]

Lots of info can be found from your posting header, although I personally am not
bright enough to know if you're using Windows.

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Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2007 19:30:43 -0600
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Subject: Re: how do you block people from knowing what operating system you
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Gord

 

[Tyler W.]

so could you some how redirect the browser from sending a user_agent
header with the Host File?
here is an ad-on for firefox that does what your talking about but is
there some other way you can do it like opening up the header file with
notepad or something https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/967
thanks for the info I appreciate it

 

[Gord Dibben]

We have reached the outer margins of my expertise on this so I won't be of any
help past this.


Gord

 

[Gordon]

User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 (Windows/20071031)

That's the clue from the headers!

 

[Gordon]

so could you some how redirect the browser from sending a user_agent
header with the Host File?
here is an ad-on for firefox that does what your talking about but is
there some other way you can do it like opening up the header file with
notepad or something https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/967
thanks for the info I appreciate it

Why are you so paranoid about people knowing what OS you use?

 

[sk]

I figure it out but I am sure if you can see but I use thunderbird to
connect to usenet and my I click on a post it tells me either you
newsreader which I only will be to know what news reader you use but
when it's like thunderbird or outlook express it will have a user-agent
which will tell what mail/newreader they are using and operating system
but they can change those settings so that it does not show that which
is what I did and I changed mine to none of your business.

you are using a X-Newsreader called Forte Agent 2.0/32.652

 

[sk]

well it is not really what os I use it's just I do not want people to
know what web browser I am using and know since I have learned how to do
that web hosts can not block me because I use firefox.
but you also have to block javascript as well because they can use that
to detect your browser as well I did not disable javascript however I
just use noscript which works by blocking sites that are not listed in
the whitelist from using my computers java

if you want to know why firefox is being block by some web hosts go to
this link

 

[Tyler W.]

well it is not really what os I use it's just I do not want people to
know what web browser I am using and know since I have learned how to do
that web hosts can not block me because I use firefox.
but you also have to block javascript as well because they can use that
to detect your browser as well I did not disable javascript however I
just use noscript which works by blocking sites that are not listed in
the whitelist from using my computers java

if you want to know why firefox is being block by some web hosts go to
this link

 

[Tyler W.]

I figure it out but I am sure if you can see but I use thunderbird to
connect to usenet and my I click on a post it tells me either you
newsreader which I only will be to know what news reader you use but
when it's like thunderbird or outlook express it will have a user-agent
which will tell what mail/newreader they are using and operating system
but they can change those settings so that it does not show that which
is what I did and I changed mine to none of your business.

you are using a X-Newsreader called Forte Agent 2.0/32.652

 

[WaIIy]

Lots of info can be found from your posting header, although I personally am not
bright enough to know if you're using Windows.

NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2007 19:30:48 -0600
Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2007 19:30:43 -0600
From: "Tyler W." <user@invalid>
Reply-To: (e-mail address removed)
User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 (Windows/20071031)

=============================================

Now you are.

 

[Gordon]

well it is not really what os I use it's just I do not want people to know
what web browser I am using

I repeat the question - why are you so paranoid about people knowing what
web browser you are using?

 

[HeyBub]

I repeat the question - why are you so paranoid about people knowing
what web browser you are using?

Evidently the Loonix group moderator doesn't want users of Windows fouling
the nest.

 

[Gordon]

Evidently the Loonix group moderator doesn't want users of Windows fouling
the nest.

"Loonix"? What's that?

 

[Bob I]

"Loonix"? What's that?

A variant of "Linutz"? <VBG>