Re: How do I stop my internal IP address being viewable externally?

From: Anthony Boynes (nobody_at_this.address)
Date: 11/30/04 

Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2004 06:03:38 -0700

On Tue, 30 Nov 2004 23:23:24 +1030, "Tony Cooke" <firesoft@tpg.com.au>
wrote:

>>>Hi Anthony.
>>>
>>>Firstly, thanks for replying.
>>>
>>>The address is http://www.auditmypc.com/freescan/scanoptions.asp
>>>
>>>All the best,
>>>Tony
>>>
>>
>>
>> Yup, that is the site. Disable javascript, close your browser, and
>> then retry it. Since javascript is primarily client side, it is
>> trivial to place your local address in the page using it.
>>
>> I think you will see, as I did, that it doesn't work after you do
>> that.
>
>Yep, that did it. Thanks Anthony.
>
>I thought I had a BIG hole in my security there for a second.
>
>Is there any site that you can recommend that gives a fairly good ("real")
>audit of a site/IP address?
>
>Thanks again for your help.
>
>I greatly appreciate it.
>
>All the best,
>Tony
>

For an external port scan I would recommend either
http://scan.sygate.com/ or http://www.broadbandreports.com/scan.

And of course these are just port scans. They won't tell you if you
need a patch for your operating system or a particular application.

Anthony Boynes

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