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Jafthasleftthebuilding Vice Captain
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 Posted: Wed Jul 18, 2007 12:50 am
Just have a firewall to block hackers and you really have nothing to worry about. If memory serves right, IP addresses are easy to get.
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Posted: Wed Jul 18, 2007 12:51 am
Jaft, a firewall really won't do much.
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Jafthasleftthebuilding Vice Captain
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Posted: Wed Jul 18, 2007 12:51 am
Hey Lin, is that site trustworthy? I wanna try the IP hider thingamabob.
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Posted: Wed Jul 18, 2007 12:56 am
I hope nothing happens, Celes, as I don't think anything should happen.
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Jafthasleftthebuilding Vice Captain
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Posted: Wed Jul 18, 2007 12:57 am
Firewalls do a lot. I rather have a club than no weapon at all. ^_^
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Posted: Wed Jul 18, 2007 1:12 am
Um... Well... I only use it to see if it can track my IP. I'd rather send you to this site if you want to hide your IP:
http://tor.eff.org/docs/tor-doc-win32.html.en
The programs that will be installed are Tor (an IP anonymizer), Privoxy (a Proxy server designed to hide DNS requests from third parties), and Vidalia (a configuration tool).
Once you install these things install this addon if you're using Firefox (I hope).
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2275
Using the links will help you anonymize your IP address. The caveat is that it's slower to surf because what's essentially happening is something like this (simplified):
My computer ==> Another client somewhere else ==> Another client somewhere else ==> Another client somewhere else ==> The actual website.
It's slow because of all the meandering it does to hide your true IP address. The advantage is unless one knows the start and end of the connection nobody that tries to hack you can know where you are.
For example, when I use it, my computer is thought by the website I gave before to be in Germany.
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Jafthasleftthebuilding Vice Captain
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Posted: Wed Jul 18, 2007 1:18 am
"Firefox is configured to use a proxy server that is refusing connections."
-.-
Well, at least I'm using a router already. Lol.
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Posted: Wed Jul 18, 2007 1:21 am
Awwww...
Hrmmm... Did you install everything? What do your proxy settings look like?
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Jafthasleftthebuilding Vice Captain
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Posted: Wed Jul 18, 2007 1:24 am
I'm not a Guru with this stuff. I just clicked install and it did. I'm using Privoxy.
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Posted: Wed Jul 18, 2007 1:25 am
Go to Firefox Preferences > Advanced > Network > Connection.
Make sure it looks like this:
HTTP Proxy: localhost Port 8118
SSL Proxy: localhost Port 8118
SOCKS Host: localhost Port 9050 (Socks version 5)
No Proxy for: localhost, 127.0.0.1
You installed TorButton too right?
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Jafthasleftthebuilding Vice Captain
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Posted: Wed Jul 18, 2007 1:28 am
Everything was as you said. I have a button that I can enable or disable.
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Posted: Wed Jul 18, 2007 1:30 am
Awww... in that case it may be the router or your firewall software blocking it. In any case you can still surf the Internet. Should you want to fiddle around to getting it working on your own time it seems you can.
Besides... Firewall and Router should be good for most.
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Jafthasleftthebuilding Vice Captain
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Posted: Wed Jul 18, 2007 1:31 am
Yesh, apparently I'm already in Texas or another city in California. biggrin
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Posted: Wed Jul 18, 2007 1:36 am
Heehee... nice...
I'm back to being IP-vulnerable... but that's because who wants my Gaia information? O.o
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Jafthasleftthebuilding Vice Captain
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Posted: Wed Jul 18, 2007 1:38 am
HEy man, those digital items do cause a ruckus sometimes.
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