Security & Privacy

I am not sure about your three questions but I do know that web sites can identify your IP address.

That is the address assigned to you by your internet provider. Static IP addresses do not change from one connect session to another. Dynamic IP addresses are assigned at the time you connect.

Your internet provider could provide the appropriate info to the authorities to uniquely identify you or at least your PC. You have certain privacy rights that must be honored but your ISP will turn over info about you if necessary.






Joe

Message Edited on 07/12/01 10:55PM by joecapp

Yes.

The best solution is a personal firewall. I recommend Zone Alarm...it's freeware and, it's excellent:

http://www.zonelabs.com/

Dan

Thanks for your suggestion. Until receiving your affirmative response to my queries, I thought I might be a little paranoid about security and privacy. Clearly someone put alot of work into Zone Alarm as the user's manual is 163 pages, but the program's user interface seems well designed. I have a learning curve to surmount and this appears to be a good starting point. Thanks again.

The "learning curve" is actually fairly short. The great thing about the program is, it's very effective and very easy to use.

Steve Gibson has a great site (Shields Up) for learning more about internet security...and, firewall effectiveness:

http://grc.com/

Good Luck...



Dan

You are correct regarding the learning curve, I have it up and running, but there is a conflict with my UPS power management software. I've tried all possible permutations and combinations for paserver.exe and portmgr.exe but ZA continues to decline the server request. (The software is PowerAlert from Tripp Lite.) The temporary work-around is to manually activate ZA from a desktop icon until I figure out how to precisely control Start Up launch order. Thanks for the Gibson reference, I'll check into it.