Hi malware fighters,
look here: http://www.spyber.com/
or
http://www.plinko.net/404/supersleuth.asp
polonus
Got my city pinpointed, I was promted if I allowed it to view my clipboard tho. WAIT! What was that sound outside the door! :o
You don’t have to worry at all. It looks scary, but it’s not, trust me. The city it showed you is the city where your ISP is located, it’s not showing your home address. It will never be able to tell your exact address. In my case this first link gave me totally different city results than where I live, just because my ISP is located some 60 km far away from my city.
Only 60km? The last one of these missed me by about 600km.
Well, my old ISP was around 600 km away. It’s HQ was in Montreal and I live in Toronto.
Well, it does narrow it down to my city. But, I don’t think I’m the only computer user here, so that doesn’t bother me.
It also tells me this:
[QUOTE]Linux
[/quote]
Which in plain English means:
“Nothing to see here, move along.”
So, other than feeding the paranoia gene, I’m not sure what the usefulness of these sites is.
Spyber got my home city correct, which is interesting. About three years ago my ISP (originally HQ’d right here) was bought out by a larger company (still only regional), and near every who-is I’ve looked at since then shows the correct company but at their “new” servers, about 75 miles southwest of here.
But Spyber totally blew who the ISP is – it shows a cable company, which isn’t even here (because of Canada’s mandatory-monopoly rules), and my ISP doesn’t offer cable.
The Plinko one showed very little info, essentially just my browser type, IP, and referrer (here). And those are normally logged by just about every site you visit.
Said my Location was in Denver, NC. Thats nearly 40 Miles away :
Discover mine correctly 
Hi .:Mac:.,
That is common: - it is no GeoLocation. Your 'puter is no cell phone. My place of residence according to them also was 75 km off from the place I actually sit. In the old days they gave the server address of the provider, in my case that was Amsterdam (then). I know Google can home in to 10 kilometers now from where you actually are, frightening… I am near Rotterdam, they say I am at Markelo near the German border, maybe they found my avast pin location???
the old pol
pinpoints me to the current location and city also-should i hide ;D
Twenty miles away from me … where the server is located.
Located my isp HQ as expected, nothing surprising, although thanks to my user agent switcher extension it identified (tricked?) the site into thinking i was using Opera 7.54 instead of firefox
–lee
;D lee19.
Mine too , my Firefox browser there passes for Opera: Opera/9.20 (Windows NT 6.0; U; en)
Tried it with Stealther on: No link/referrer information either
NoScript: Java disabled or not supported by your browser
So only the header info, just that, or open up the link via anonymouser:
IP: 193.200.150.189 Whois
ISP : Anonymouse eV
Host : mail189.anonymouse.org
Country: Anonymous Proxy (A1) - Anonymous Proxy
Region/State:
City:
That is funny, no city given, it should be Hanau
ip 193.200.150.189
193.200.150.0-193.200.150.255 VELIANET-DE-ANONYMOUSE Anonymouse eV
<<193.200.150.167 .anonymouse.org >>193.200.151.1 ntk.org.ua
193.200.150.0/24 www anonymouse org
AS29066 VELIANET AS velia net Internetdienste GmbH Hanau
193.200.150.0-193.200.150.255 VELIANET-DE-ANONYMOUSE Anonymouse eV
193.200.150.189 *.anonymouse.org A
.anonymouse.org A
anonymouse.org A
mail189.anonymouse.org PTR A?
check entire c-net 193.200.150
check ip 193.200.150.189 in RBL
IP information for 193.200.150.189 at domaincrawler
http://www.robtex.com/dns/unix.org.ua.html
So the place could also be a unix in Kiev,
pol
You or the server must be waaaay out in the sticks. ;D
That is funny, no city given,
polonus,
Indeed its very true you can trick the site, so always good to know there are ways to be excessively secure if wanted
Also thanks for mentioning the Stealther Extension, not used it yet, plan on testing it for a while.
–lee
Hi lee19,
New version of Stealther was just being brought in. Just click on the Stealther button if you really have need for it, because it can hamper certain log ins on webforums (for which cookies are obligatory) and certain webproxies (which won’t work without cookies). It is a nice add-on from a Slovenian developer Filip Bozic (FBI Slovenia): http://www.zadet.net/
I cannot comment this add-on better than Lifehacker did here, telling why he uses this add-on:
http://lifehacker.com/software/privacy/download-of-the-day-stealther-firefox-extension-174752.php
Enjoy this extension, my good friend,
Damian
For me, adding more software delays to hide useless information makes no sense.
Who cares if people know where my ISP is located. ???
Hi bob3160,
Well for you there would not have been any need for webproxies, anonymouser links and what have you.
I am not so much afraid of what people know about my ISP address, but what morons sit on my private data and what money they make out of it each year by selling my data without me having a clue. It is the one way side of affairs things work for us to-day, that is troubling me, bob. Where does the user come in sight? Where is the proverb nowadays “The customer is king”, to-day the credo is take it or leave it.
The old Romans had a beautiful saying for this situation: “Quies custodiet custodes”, meaning in plain English: “Who is guarding the guards”, and I think some guards are never even guarded at all, it is not a free for all, but a free for some, that is why I like to guard my privacy in certain respects,
polonus
And that’s what makes the world go round. ;D Different strokes for different folks.