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How to prevent my information from being accessed by webpages q 02-21-2008
Posted by Sebastian G. on February 27, 2008, 3:33 pm
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Ant wrote:

>>> I've disabled DCOM using dcomcnfg.
>> No,
>
> Yes.


If you had disabled DCOM, your Windows installation would hardly work any more.

Posted by Techie24Chick on February 22, 2008, 11:49 am
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On Feb 21, 2:09 pm, comph...@toddh.net (Todd H.) wrote:
> > Hello - I have visited a few sites that somehow have information about what
> > city I live in. I have cleared autocomplete and history and cookies and
> > offline files, and when I go back they still greet me with the city I live
> > in. How do they get that info? How do I stop it?
> > Running IE 6
> > Thanx
>
> They're most likely divining this info from your computer/ISP's IP
> address.
>
> If you proxy your web traffic through another server, then the web
> site will think you're coming from there.
>
> Tor is a program that pseudo anonymizes your apparent web whereabouts
> by the use of onion routing. You can google the program and term for
> more information, but basically, it makes you apparent IP address
> appear to come from a number of different places.
>
> I agree with Sebastian though, IE6 is likely the bigger issue here.
> You should reconsider that choice if you are concerned with security.
> ActiveX is just way too pourous. Firefox and Opera are decent
> alternatives.
>
> Best Regards,
> --
> Todd H.http://www.toddh.net/

Firefox has my vote! You should test it out, q...

Posted by Chris Mattern on February 21, 2008, 6:09 pm
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> Hello - I have visited a few sites that somehow have information about what
> city I live in. I have cleared autocomplete and history and cookies and
> offline files, and when I go back they still greet me with the city I live
> in. How do they get that info? How do I stop it?
> Running IE 6
> Thanx
>
It's often possible to deduce what city you're in by your IP address,
particularly if you're using a ordinary ISP that's local to you.
Unless you want to dial in to an access point in some other city,
or go through a proxy in some other city, there's not much you can do.

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Posted by Bit Twister on February 21, 2008, 7:36 pm
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On Thu, 21 Feb 2008 08:07:56 GMT, q wrote:
> Hello - I have visited a few sites that somehow have information about what
> city I live in. I have cleared autocomplete and history and cookies and
> offline files, and when I go back they still greet me with the city I live
> in. How do they get that info? How do I stop it?

Quit running IE for starters.
Go here to see what your browser leaks http://gemal.dk/browserspy/

Firefox or opera would be safer from malware.

I would run Firefox with NoScript Add On installed.
http://noscript.net/getit

Most places guess your city from your ip address.

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