See, that's an area I'm not very familiar with. I don't know a whole lot about how secure most browsers are, but I prefer firefox just as a personal preference.
Also, I read an interesting article on here earlier, about how IBM is ready to give up on cyber "defence" because the "hackers" are like one step ahead of everyone.

so what are they planning to do a Yard Sale for all the login details first and then up their sticks from Cyber Defence??? Thats not very IBM like is it? then may be we should contact a few hackers and ask them to keep us secure from other hackers?? If the trusted names are giving up so i think the best way is to befriend our enemy to keep on the safe side, unless there is any other concrete solution. Oh i miss the days when you did not have to worry about such things.

Raj

There are still other companies, and I'm sure IBM won't give in completely, they are just saying it's a hopeless situation.

y do u say that...? how to determine the ip add of a computer

depends on the scenario, more details please technogeek

I thought Maulth had answered for your question Technogeek,


"Maulth: Honestly, the most common way to find an IP is through 3rd party clients, such as ventrilo, game servers, ect. I know that sounds retarded, but I assure you it's true. You can also get someone's IP based upon records on forums, although with dynamic IP's, those silly changing things, you would have to scan a whole IP range to find the correct target. You ask why people hack, that is an amazing question. That's kind of like asking why Racism exists. I can't answer that, people hack for different things. There are two different kinds of hackers, at least in my mind. There are those that intend to do damage, and then there are ones like myself, which I dub ethical hackers. People whom hack to extend there knowledge about a system, or even the virtual world, or to defend themselves and friends against other bad hackers. Hacking started out honestly enough, it was just the modification to a program, a game even. Look what it has become today, you can't say credit card theft, or identity theft, without hacking in that same sentence."

Think u missed this bit.

Raj

ok how to determine the IP address of an computer and what is that IP address...?

Isn't that exactly the same question you asked earlier? I answered on page 2. People usually find it easiest to use a third party tool (mirc, ventrilo, game servers, ect.) but there are other ways.

Now that we are on this subject how do these tools work? You know how do they determine the Addresses?
I mean do they just scan the range of addresses on game servers for example.

Or the third party tools use different approach???

basically, if you are doing anything to a client pc (e.g playing a game against it), your pc must know its IP because thats how it knows who its communicating with