needlove
Sun Feb 18 02:02:04 CST 2007
"Mark Burnett" <mb@xato.net> wrote in message
news:A0033520-A6AB-4B58-A352-DB86EBCF3DA1@microsoft.com...
|A MAC address is necessary to route traffic to your computer. If Shields
Up
| can see your MAC address, it would have to be through some method such as
a
| NetBIOS lookup. Nevertheless, there is nothing anyone outside your ISP
can
| do with your MAC address. Steve Gibson has a reputation for over-hyping
| things like that.
|
| Make sure you have your Windows firewall enabled or install a personal
| firewall, run anti-virus and anti-spyware software, and just don't be
stupid
| and you should be okay.
|
| What do I mean by not being stupid? The other day I noticed my
10-year-old
| had installed custom cursers on his Windows profile. I asked him about
that
| because I was concerned about him inadvertantly installing malware of
some
| sort. He told me he wasn't stupid--he only downloads from web sites he's
| heard of on TV before. It was then that I realized that often it is just
| that simple.
|
|
| Mark Burnett
|
http://xato.net
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| "needlove" <crunch@setiathome.domain> wrote in message
| news:eiz%23jAxUHHA.4028@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
| >
| > "Bogwitch" <Bogwitch@reply.to.group.fake> wrote in message
| > news:w%LBh.21296$Da4.3156@newsfe6-gui.ntli.net...
| > | needlove wrote:
| > | > Any way to conceal it?
| > |
| > | In what context?
| > |
| > | What are you trying to achieve?
| > |
| > | Bogwitch.
| >
| >
| > Thanks for the link and info. I am giving the "Hide My MAC Address"
trial
| > software a try but would rather do it without the software. Will give
it a
| > google.
| >
| > Context would be stand-alone, Windows XP pc, surfing the web using
on-chip
| > Nvidia nForce networking controller which uses only Jetico Personal
| > firewall and TCP/IP protocol to connect via cable modem to ISP and web.
| >
| > A visit to Steve Gibson's Sheilds UP! site to check my new, free Jetico
| > firewall, (replacing Lavasoft's clone of Agnitum's Outpost firewall due
to
| > driver problems) showed that my MAC address was readily available to
any
| > website requesting it.
| >
| > Due to privacy and security concerns I wish to put a stop to it.
| >
| >
| >
| >
| >
Given my IP and Mac address there is no other computer within 600 million
miles that matches this information. It's like posting your e-mail address,
your phone number and your families birth certificate information on
Myspace.
Steve Gibson may go overboard a time or two but by using "socket lock" and
"Kill the messenger" and other tools I have thwarted heaps of spycrap. What
have you done?
Obviously this is the wrong forum to seek security advice good day.