Re: software to block my IP address
Originally Posted by
YourSurrogateGod
Then why is there this feature on ZoneAlarm that says that it can "hide" your IP? What does it do exactly?
It hides the fact that your computer is connected to the internet by silently ignoring all incomming connections. So someone on the net can't see you, unless you contact them. As Yves points out it's more difficult to hide your IP from the webservers you visit when you surf the net, because you need to send them your IP to open a connection to them.
You can use a proxy server to hide your IP address from the webservers you visit. It works by having the proxy server connect to the webserver and then sen the result back to you.
But ofcourse to do that you need to give your IP to the proxy server.
Last edited by khp; December 1st, 2004 at 05:28 PM.
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