Re: ip address from opening email
[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by Unregistered [/i]
[B]If someone sends you an email (a normal email not one with any virus), when you open it can they see your ip address from where you are opening it?
Also is there a way to block your ip address when on yahoo mess. with someone else.
Thanks for any info!! [/B][/QUOTE]
If you get an HTML formatted email it can contain images, and those images can be fetched from a webserver when you open the email.
When your email program makes the request to get the image then the webserver can log your IP address. If you are using proxies or the other anonymizing methods mentioned by others then your IP address will be safe.
[B]However[/B], those images, when they come in a spam email, usually have unique numbers that will identify not your IP but your email address - confirming that the email sent from SpammerX to [email]you@yourplace.com[/email] got to you and that [I]you opened it![/I] Now you get more spam.
I always set my email program to not show images because of this. If I get an image I trust I can always open it later. If your email program won't let you do this get rid of it and get another program. If you're using Microsoft Outlook or Outlook Express dump it immediately - it's the most insecure P.O.S. on the planet. Get Thunderbird [url]http://www.mozilla.org/products/thunderbird/[/url] or something else - anything but outlook.
- Stephen
Can someone on a forum get your personal info?
Hi,
I was if someone uses an internet forum, can another person on that forum find out about that someone's IP address and other personal information? Does firewall help in preventing it, or there is really no way to prevent it? Thank you so much for your time