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Privacy Scams<\/h1>\n

\nAs you’ll see from the other articles in this section, there are genuine
\nthreats to your privacy on the Internet and your own PC.
\nHowever, there are also many scammers that try to worry you about
\nthings that are usually not threats, often through alarmist
\nads that look like they are system warnings.
\nUsually the come-on is to get you to buy their program, which may or
\nmay not solve the “problem” that they have identified.
\nLet’s take a look at a few of these scams and the real facts behind them.\n<\/p>\n

“Your PC is broadcasting an IP Address” Ads<\/h3>\n
\n\"bad-ad\"\n<\/div>\n

\nHave you ever seen an ad similar to the one at right?
\nThat sure looks scary.
\nNobody wants to be the target of an attack, so surely this calls for action.
\nIn reality, the best action is to ignore ads like this and avoid sites
\nthat encourage this kind of deception.<\/p>\n

\nWhenever your browser requests a page from any web site, that web site needs to know
\nwhere to send the page–it needs to know a return address.
\nThat’s the purpose of the Internet Protocol (IP) address, and your computer
\nsends out your IP address in every request you make over the Internet.
\nIt is a totally normal part of using the Internet.
\nLook in the box below, and you’ll see your IP address.\n<\/p>\n

\nYour IP address: <%=Request.ServerVariables(\"REMOTE_ADDR\")%><\/strong>\n<\/p>\n

\nFor most people this will be your actual IP address.
\nThere is a technique known as proxying<\/em> that can
\nbe used to prevent a web site from knowing your IP address.
\nA proxy acts as a middleman, so that the address the web site sees is that of
\nthe proxy and not of your PC.
\nSome ISPs use a proxy for all their customers, including some large ones
\nsuch as America Online.
\nThe drawback is that these proxies can sometimes make your computer run slower
\nthan if a proxy was not used.
\nSometimes people use proxies to “anonymize” their browsing, but see below for
\nsome warnings about these services.\n<\/p>\n

\nTo enhance the scare factor, some sites will add “we know where you live”<\/i>
\ninformation that includes the name of your town or a nearby city.
\nAgain, this is not too difficult and generally is not reason for alarm.
\nThere are even free lookup services<\/a>
\nwhere you can find the geographic location of a particular IP address.\n<\/p>\n

“Your browser is revealing information” Ads<\/h3>\n

\nAs part of the normal conversation between a browser and a web server, the
\nbrowser sends some basic information along.
\nThis usually includes the name and version of the browser, the version of Windows,
\nand a few other mundane details.
\nThis information is not unique to your particular computer, and it won’t
\nhelp anyone tell who you are or where you live.
\nYet like the “you are broadcasting an IP address” ads above, these ads
\ntry to scare you into thinking there’s something horrible happening to your PC.
\nHere is the browser string for your browser:\n<\/p>\n

\nYour Browser string:
\n<%=Request.ServerVariables(\"HTTP_USER_AGENT\")%><\/strong>\n<\/p>\n

\nThis is just another attempt to frighten you so you’ll fall for buying products
\nand services you don’t need.\n<\/p>\n

“Security Scan” Ads<\/h3>\n
\n\"bad-ad\"\n<\/div>\n

\nThese ads try to convince you that they have detected serious problems with
\nyour security and (of course) the solution is to purchase their products
\nto solve the problem.
\nThe image above is from of a series of ads that 180Solutions (an “adware”
\ncompany) popped up over security-related web sites during April 2005.
\nThe ads were designed so they were very similar to the sites they targeted,
\nusing the same colors, fonts and layouts.
\nThere is no doubt that this mimicry led some users to believe that these windows
\nwere not ads, but instead were part of the site they were visiting.\n<\/p>\n

\nLike the “Your browser is revealing information” ads, this ad says that the
\ntarget system has Windows XP and this information could be used to hack your
\ncomputer.
\nThe extra twist here is the CD-ROM test, which on some systems will open the
\nCD-ROM drive door.
\nOlder versions of Windows Media Player allowed a web page to open the drive
\ndoor, but this feature was removed in later versions.
\nIt does not indicate that a virus has taken over the system, but the warning
\nthat “you have just failed the first security test” may lead you to think so.\n<\/p>\n

Beware of Anonymizing Services<\/h3>\n

\nAs mentioned above, a proxy service can provide an extra level of privacy
\nby preventing a web site from seeing your IP address.
\nSome sites offer services for “anonymizing proxies” that not only hide your
\nIP address, but also remove some cookies, browser information
\nand script files that could be used by web sites to track your activities on the Internet.
\nAlthough there are legitimate sites that provide anonymizing services,
\nthink carefully about any site you would trust to provide these services.\n<\/p>\n

\nBe especially wary of sites that offer anonymizing services for free.
\nWhat is your guarantee that the anonymizing service itself isn’t tracking
\nyour movements across the Internet?
\nThey are in the perfect position to do that, since all your page requests
\ngo through their servers.
\nIndeed, this research project<\/a>
\nshows the result of setting up proxy servers called “honeyproxies” to watch the shady
\nactivity going through their supposedly anonymous proxy.\n<\/p>\n

\nThen there are the performance issues of anonymizing proxies.
\nSending all your web browsing through another server can make a fast connection
\nseem slow, and a slow connection seem unbearable.
\nThe amount of performance degradation will depend on the performance of
\nthe proxy server, but broadband users will almost always get better
\nperformance with a direct connection.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Privacy Scams As you’ll see from the other articles in this section, there are genuine threats to your privacy on the Internet and your own PC. However, there are also many scammers that try to worry you about things that are usually not threats, often through alarmist ads that look like they are system warnings. 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