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right... i was googling and i got thru to some random site and so forth until there was this one site that went "ip and location recorded... member fraud... action will be taken"

what the poop? :o

i'm in the uk... can they take "action" or whatever they do here as well?? coz i think it was a canada-based site...

is there such thing as "international" internet law ?

:o

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its complete bs. its just a ruse to get you to press on ok so they can install some **** on your computer.

never press ok, just close the window and ejoy the pr0n ;) :shifty:

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yes, but it looked pretty serious... it was all.. legal looking, and said that I have to join so they dont take action... and i could see my ip on the screen..

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yes, but it looked pretty serious... it was all.. legal looking, and said that I have to join so they dont take action... and i could see my ip on the screen..

I'm pretty sure your fine..

Its just dirty tactics to get you to join.

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relax.. it means nothing. you think you are the first one they recorded the IP address of?

bah! but they got you scared - thats what they wanted.. to stop you from trying this again ;)

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i hope you are right...

i have a bliming exam tomorrow... i am so tense..

btw, is there some sort of firewall that stops anyone simply detecting my ip.. or is that too essential??

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they dont even record it. its just some popup or advertisement to scare you into installing something or buying something.

Edit: no theres no way to block them from getting your ip. Unless you're behind a NAT and you dont have your own ip but a lot of people would have it.....so they couldnt identify you. anyways, its a stupid prank from some sites.

any site you visit can get your ip thru server variables, but thats nothing to worry about.

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follow-up legal letter?!?!?

aaah...

well, it wasnt a pop-up ... something like "fraudlent" access.. all i did was click a link :(

btw... for some reason my ip comes up to be "Dublin" on this ip address locator... are they so unacurate?

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Ok, here is a bit on IPs and how they are used...

How your side works

Your ISP assigns your "computer" a unique IP from a range of IPs that it has been assigned control over.

Your "computer" can be a router/firewall/PC/whatever. It is the single device that your IP talks to.

Your 'device' accepts the IP given (if it didn't, it could not talk online).

In the case of a router/firewall type system, it independantly assigns IPs to any device you connect to it (these IPs are almost always in the range of 192.168.x.x, which are reserved just for this type of use!).

How the remote side works

Any webserver will accept traffic on port 80 (the http port).

In order to communicate back, it must know who you are, to send data to you.

It will use the IP assigned to you by your ISP.

(if you have a router, it will correctly re-route the data to your PC, via the 198.162.x.x IP)

It is not a great trick for the remote site to display the data that is in the http header back to you. It includes your IP (obviously), your OS, your browser info, among other things. It looks up who owns your IP to determine the City of the registered owner through a "whois" query.

Unscrupulous people prey on those who do not know these things, and frighten people into paying for services that are useless! You cannot change your IP (or, more correctly, if you did, you would stop communicating - as your ISP would not have authorized your new IP to talk).

It's like the link to file:///c that allegedly shows how I can see your files! :no:[ (cut and paste it into your browser, as Neowin won't let me put the link correctly here) (P.S. Only works for Windows users)

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