I have had that pop-up as well, and yes it is just scaremongering. Certainly "broadcasting your IP address" is an exaggeration beyond belief. The only broadcasts an average IP host will send are to it's own LAN (for ARPing, name resolution under Windows, etc) and certainly not to the Internet on a dial-up.
Martin Visser Network Consultant Technology & Infrastructure - Consulting & Integration COMPAQ, part of the new HP 3 Richardson Place North Ryde, Sydney NSW 2113, Australia Phone *: +61-2-9022-1670 Mobile *: +61-411-254-513 Fax 7: +61-2-9022-1800 E-mail * : [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: Alan L Tyree [mailto:alant@;law.usyd.edu.au] Sent: Sunday, 27 October 2002 5:19 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [SLUG] A security question This is not a linux only question, but I have been trying to get on top of security problems. There was a commercial "alert" at a website I was visiting. It said that my PC was broadcasting my internet address. It took me to a site selling a windows product called Internet Alert. I thought that my address was always visible to websites that I visited - how else can it send back information? Is this just one of the scare tactics that seem to be prevalent? -- ------------------------------------------------------ Alan L Tyree [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.law.usyd.edu.au/~alant Tel: +61 2 4782 2670 Mobile: +61 419 638 170 Fax: +61 2 4782 7092 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
