Do you guys all know who is watching your Inet activity?

[zombie]

I mean this FOR REAL... There is a program called Peer Block. It does get complicated at first, but the benefit is you can see the addresses that watch you ALL DAY LONG. Would you believe me if I said that the DOD, and the Iraq ministry of defense, and the Chinese institute of the people, and Sony Taiwan, and the university of Tehran, and the Croatian ministry of defense were monitoring EVERY SINGLE KEY YOU PUT ON THE NET! Peer Block is complicated at first to figure how to FILTER unwanted intruders. As you add lists of IP's that you want to block, the #'s are astounding! My current list of BLOCKED VIEWERS is over 10 billion. I look at the log of blocked entities several times a day. I am truly aware that there is NO privacy on the NET. Do Me A Favor! Look at the Peer Block Site. Adding other block lists comes from another site that I can direct you to. For the everyday computer user your info is being monitored by more than the 10 billion sites that Peer block stops. Nuff Said I hope SOME of you will trust me enough to at least check it out. If anyone wants to email me or PM me I just learned how to use PC hand Screen capture so I can show you the addresses of the billions of sites watching you! When I say Billions I mean 1 computer doing an alphabet attack on your ports. We all have thousands of ports. You guys do the math!   http://www.peerblock.com/nn    I only give advise that I feel is valid!

[Hoolander2]

Thanks for watchin out for us Zomb.  I do trust you after all you've done here. 

Went and checked this out and it looks good.  Paranoid as I am, I do think the US GOVT, among others, will still be able to watch us no matter what. 

I'm seriously thinking of downloading it. 

[zombie]

http://iblocklist.com/   Peer block has I believe three built in basic lists of address. This site has dozens more. We can all thank the POS george bush for allowing every keystroke of our internet activity to be monitored. Their are hubs in down town L.A. that route all the global traffic to watch for key words, or algorithms. (I mess w/ that all the time.) Peer block is not for that. What it does is block the known ip's of BILLIONS of institutes, businesses, individuals, agency's, governments ect. It's not a coincidence when you look up car dealers in your area, and later that same day there are ads on let's just say My yahoo for best car deals in (your town). These adds show up from others watching your traffic, and selling/trading your ip address, and your surfing habits. I can easily use your ip to trace back the version of the operating system you have, and even down to what software/hardware is installed on your system. There are hundreds of free programs to down load just for that purpose. All this is done by monitoring traffic to any given site, and logging the ip's there. My computer then connects to yours thru the open port you are using. Peer block STOPS THIS DEAD! You will find it is a royal pain in the butt to establish the allowed sites as many are blocked that you may want open, such as access to Micro soft updates, and hotmail ect. It takes about 45 seconde for the site to be written onto an allowed list, and you may have dozens of sites you use that are blocked by default. BUT once it is configured for your set up, its kinda like the feeling of a 5 point harness at the race track. I never use the net w/ out it. Today alone it has block over 39'000 sites trying to see what I am doing. Many of them keep trying numerical port to port sweeps. 100's of them before quiting. Your firewall does nothing to prevent this as the port is OPEN, and you OPENED IT. I'm not a paranoid type, and I have nothing to hide. I just like feeling secure. I really hope more people see this, and spread the word. It opened my eyes wide to see who is watching.

[axy]

I mean this FOR REAL... There is a program called Peer Block. It does get complicated at first, but the benefit is you can see the addresses that watch you ALL DAY LONG. Would you believe me if I said that the DOD, and the Iraq ministry of defense, and the Chinese institute of the people, and Sony Taiwan, and the university of Tehran, and the Croatian ministry of defense were monitoring EVERY SINGLE KEY YOU PUT ON THE NET!

Last week, somebody published on the Internet the registry of all Croatian Army military personnel and soldiers that participated in the war here between 1991 and 1995.

This registry is supposed to be secret.

Now the government is doing everything trying to find out who did it, instead of protecting the registry while it was still secret... or decide whether it has to be secret or not, because in other countries, USA included, it is usually public information.

Croatian government got all the Echelon-style technology for Internet surveillance from USA at the end of 90s so no wonder they are using it now.

CEO of SUN said in 1999 "There is no more privacy anyway. Get over it."

I pretty much agree with him. Privacy on the Internet is a pipe dream.

[Hoolander2]

Ok, I downloaded it.  Took ten seconds.  Then the set up wizards did their job in about another minute or two.  Already blocking all sorts of stuff.  I took a few minutes to read the FAQ before downloading. 

I notice also that when I visit websites now (this forum included) the progress bars at the bottom of internet explorer never get complete.  Guess that's blocking going on.  It doesn't seem to interfere with viewing the sites, though.  Thanks again, Zombie. 

[zombie]

You are more than welcome. Adding lists is sort of a process. You go to the Iblock lists site, and have to copy/paste the url into the peer block add lists section. Some sites do hang a little. I just hit stop on the browser, and it sets just fine. You will find MANY sites use third party hosts for the picts/adds posted, and you will see the icon flashing in the tray. You just right click the address/http that shows, and either allow permanently, or for a short while. I almost ditched it at first, because it does take time to get everything you want allowed, but after seeing the results of who is blocked I never leave home w/out it. Every Govt. on earth has a system of "reaching out" on the net. The Croatian govt has several. They have been one of the sites blocked on mine from the start, and I haven't seen any unusual attempts from them recently. But I don't visit many sites from there. I will try to find some tonight, and see if I can report back on who is watching there. (beside the M.O.D.) There truly is NO privacy, but I have LOTS of curve balls for those that want to try hard enough. Peer block is the most active of the arsenal tho. Give it a try guys, just to see some of THEM, who all can see YOU!

[axy]

You are more than welcome. Adding lists is sort of a process. You go to the Iblock lists site, and have to copy/paste the url into the peer block add lists section. Some sites do hang a little. I just hit stop on the browser, and it sets just fine. You will find MANY sites use third party hosts for the picts/adds posted, and you will see the icon flashing in the tray. You just right click the address/http that shows, and either allow permanently, or for a short while. I almost ditched it at first, because it does take time to get everything you want allowed, but after seeing the results of who is blocked I never leave home w/out it. Every Govt. on earth has a system of "reaching out" on the net. The Croatian govt has several. They have been one of the sites blocked on mine from the start, and I haven't seen any unusual attempts from them recently. But I don't visit many sites from there. I will try to find some tonight, and see if I can report back on who is watching there. (beside the M.O.D.) There truly is NO privacy, but I have LOTS of curve balls for those that want to try hard enough. Peer block is the most active of the arsenal tho. Give it a try guys, just to see some of THEM, who all can see YOU!

The only almost-safe way to use Internet is Tor and some encrypted VPN-proxy server. The issue with the latter is a) speed b) you have to pay for them as there are no good free sites and all free have serious limitations in terms of bandwidth, total traffic etc.

I think that using Internet must be treated as being bare-assed in a gay-bar (not that there is anything wrong with that, as Seinfeld would say!). Keep your ass towards the wall and do not bend over, as somebody might come along with funny ideas...

And remember - no privacy on the Internet...

[zombie]

Ah... The Fanny Pack thread has Jumped... Tor is another of the tools in my "kit" I use Tor,w/ Vidalla, and Pollipo. I have these "plugged" into a Firefox browser. Using ANY of the "what is my IP" services I verify my new ID, and set about messing w/ my Uncle Sam. With 10mps service, there is almost 0 lag time. On top of that I run it all in a "sand box" both on the Browser, and windows explorer. I keep the system sandboxed as I also am a member of the TOR Relay. That allows others that have censored web access (China, most of Africa, ect) to use my system as part of the Vidallia network. You are right axy, STAY AWAY from "free" proxies. MOST of them monitor, and log everything.

[axy]

Ah... The Fanny Pack thread has Jumped... Tor is another of the tools in my "kit" I use Tor,w/ Vidalla, and Pollipo. I have these "plugged" into a Firefox browser. Using ANY of the "what is my IP" services I verify my new ID, and set about messing w/ my Uncle Sam. With 10mps service, there is almost 0 lag time. On top of that I run it all in a "sand box" both on the Browser, and windows explorer. I keep the system sandboxed as I also am a member of the TOR Relay. That allows others that have censored web access (China, most of Africa, ect) to use my system as part of the Vidallia network. You are right axy, STAY AWAY from "free" proxies. MOST of them monitor, and log everything.

Can you use torrents?

[zombie]

All day every day.  http://www.torproject.org/download.html.en  This is the set up for the complete Tor package. Sandboxie Review Part 1   That's a little more on the sand box. I also run Winsonor, and The Zemana anti logger. There are lots of other bits involved, but these programs work like silk together. They all do different jobs but they also overlap in all the right places. Well seeded torrents will dl@ 1mbs on this set up (100-150 seeds)

[Rozz]

Interesting subject--my computer nerd recommends ShieldsUP!  Click on "proceed" then click on "all service ports".  Seems my computer is very secure so I wonder how much this depends on your firewall and so on?

He also says not to open links from web pages, rather open the page from your own browser.

Hi everyone!  My bike is finally home for the second time with a second new starter--full report coming as soon as I can get my head around how to explain the trail of trials experienced since last Sept.

[zombie]

Hey Rozz! Shields up is a firewall extension. It will make your system NOT RESPOND to passing "pings". Eset Nod 32 has the Best firewall in my opinion as the Shields up extension is not needed with it. Also there are thousands of ports in the system. If you open any one of them the fire wall will also be open. Winsioar is a program that prevents any unauthorized exe programs from running. I can open links from the browser w/ no worries as nothing can run on my system w/out 1, me seeing it, and 2, me allowing it.  https://www.grc.com/x/ne.dll?bh0bkyd2    That is one of my favorite sites. You can go thru some basic tests to see how secure your set up is. Gibson research runs the site, and they do not try to sell you anything. There are some very useful free tools there also. I believe it is far better to know what the weakness's are in your system than to assume your pricey software is doing something/anything. I have my system pretty well locked down against intrusion as, I gamble w/ my buddies on who can "catch" the worst viruses w/ no ill effects. We email them to each other to see who crashes first! I am SURE you all know there a millions of sites/software that are as bad as the Plague. Why take any chances. Just the first software I posted (Peer Block) will not allow over 10 billion sites to have access to your system. Not bad for free! Now! Who wants to play "Catch" w/ me?

[axy]

Hey Rozz! Shields up is a firewall extension. It will make your system NOT RESPOND to passing "pings". Eset Nod 32 has the Best firewall in my opinion as the Shields up extension is not needed with it. Also there are thousands of ports in the system. If you open any one of them the fire wall will also be open. Winsioar is a program that prevents any unauthorized exe programs from running. I can open links from the browser w/ no worries as nothing can run on my system w/out 1, me seeing it, and 2, me allowing it. 

I am sure you know you do not need extra software to achieve this. You can do just the same with Vista's/7's UAC, or simply, not use your PC under admin account, but under regular user.
There is a proggie called Dropmyrights (I think) that does the same targeting a single application (for example Internet browser).

[Rozz]

You guys have me totally confused, although I do have NOD32 so maybe I'm on at least the right track.

How do y'all find the time to figure all this stuff out?

Sun is shining--time to ride!!!

[zombie]

For me it's curiosity! The whole world of info at your fingertips, and it's lined w/ all sorts of nasties. When something breaks I find a way to fix it. When someone breaks something of mine maliciously... I retaliate 10 fold. It's not that hard to crash a bad site! Besides I live in Florida. My desk is at the back window, the doors are open, and the puppies/dogs are trying to catch the neighbors chickens AGAIN. Life is good!