Post #141501 by freddiefreelance on Wed, Feb 16, 2005 9:05 AM

On 2005-02-15 22:56, johntiki wrote:
Rodeotiki...your little signature thingee is freakin' me out! How does it know all my internet info?!! :o

John, that's the IP address you're posting from, your OS & browser version. Those thingees are fed by simply bouncing a couple of requests off your computer, that your computer's quite happy to respond to. That's one way pirate sites find PCs with security holes to zombify. Renting lists of zombie computers to spammers, virus hackers & DDoS Blackmailers is a big business, earning the list holders thousands of dollars a week. If you're worried about websites being able to extract this info that easily, try using an internet anonymizer like anonymizer.com