Mace,>>You know, I have seen psolk's sig thing there before, and every time I see it, I say, "I must be doing ok", especially since it doesn't show the true IP of my sys. <. Then again, my guess, given the state of the net, I *could* be ten years gone and nobody would know, LOL.My $0.02...jb

Paul,>>Not sure I get the credit score reference???<

Guys, I DON"T see your IP. No one else does. You only ever see your own IP. It is just a custom sig. You can't do anything without annoying someone these days... Is the Danasoft signature a hacking tool, or can it be used to violate anyone's privacy?Absolutely not! The Danasoft signature can never be used maliciously. Users come to Danasoft.com and create custom signs, with text that they choose, and they then display their custom signs in forums or on websites using a simple image link. We don't monitor or censor the text that users choose to display on their signs. Regardless of what prankster text might appear on a user's custom sign, the sign is totally harmless.When you view the sign, you will see your IP address and computer info. When others view the sign, they will see THEIR information. Try it, ask a friend to visit danasoft.com. They won't see your IP, they will see their IP. Your information is never shown to others. This is always true, no matter where the Danasoft sign appears (within web pages, emails, etc).Whenever you visit a website, your IP address is automatically broadcast to that site, and it's even broadcast to those sites that you don't visit when you load a website that contains images that are hosted by a third party, such as advertisements. When you load the Danasoft signature from a webpage, your IP address is automatically broadcast to us, just like any other site. Danasoft.com does not "hack" your computer to obtain your IP address. One of the purposes of the sign, besides for fun and amusement, is to spread awareness that your IP and other computer information is known to every website that you visit. If that concerns you, there are software programs available to mask your IP and other information when you surf the web, search Google for those.Danasoft.com doesn't log the IP addresses of people that view our signature graphics - we simply host the custom signatures. When a request comes in to display a signature, our software creates the sign "on-the-fly", and displays the viewer's IP and other computer info on the sign. Our software draws a new sign for every single person that views it.The Danasoft.com signature graphic is not a website statistics tool. It cannot be used to tell you who is visiting your website because we do not provide that service, and as mentioned above, we don't even know who is viewing the signs since we don't log that information.For more info, read the privacy policy.Go ahead, create your own sign to use in forums, on MySpace, on your website, anywhere!-Paul

Paul,I think my post may have been out of line. I didn't mean in any way to imply, infer, (any of those words I never can get right, along with the difference between metaphor and analogy ;-)) that you'd done something malicious, harmful, or in any way contrary to the good spirit of this forum. If anything, the error was from me, as regards something that in retrospect could be considered a veiled threat (the stupid credit score thing I said...I may, as many do have the ability to mess with folks...I don't, period). OK? jbUtility links & FS stuff: [a href=http://exmixer.com/]exmixer.com[/a]Dell XPS 600 XPPro SP2Pentium D 955EE 3.46MHz Dual Core/HT FSB @ 1066MHz 2x2MB Cache2x1GB DDR2 PC2-5300 @ 667 MHz1xOEM SAMSUNG HD160JJ/P 160GB SATA II/NCQ2xSeagate ST3160827AS 160GB SATA I/NCQOEM TSSTcorp CD-RW TS-H292B, SONY DVD-ROM DDU1615EVGA e-GeForce 7900 GTX 512MB GDDR3 PCIe x16Dell 2007FP 20"SB X-FiViewcast Osprey 230 vid capturePlextor 716UF external Hi-Speed USB2.0/FW DVD-RW/CD-RW

Mace,What you are probably seeing is the NAT'd address of your computer. Most likely you are on the inside of a router with a non-routable address. The Internet is broken into Public and Private IP's. There is a process called NAT or Network Address Translation which takes a public address which there are only so many of and changes it into an infinite number of private addresses. For example, A large company can have one IP address which ALL traffic goes through. Most likely a firewall. This ONE IP would be public and registered with DNS (Name Resolution) Then inside that firewall on the private side everyone can have a 192.168.x.x IP. So although the computer you are on has an IP of 192.168.1.101 for example, the IP that is public and someone else would use to connect to you would be the public IP or the IP of the firewall or router. That is the IP the signature shows, not the 192.168 address. Then the router would perform a NAT to your machine on the inside. Most likely that is why you are not seeing the IP because it is read directly from from your local IPStack so it should always show the correct gateway IP. Sorry for the Networking 101 lesson ;)-PaulEDIT: No worries Eric, but if you can manipulate it can I get an 850 please???Primary RigLiquid CooledAMD FX-57 @ 3 gigsAsus A8NSLI-Premium2 gigs Corsair XMS PC3500LL 2 3 2 6 1TXFX 7900 GTX 690/1750XFX 7800 GTX 515/135024 inch Widescreen LCDDual 19 inch LCD'sRaid-0+1PCPower and Cooling 1khttp://home.comcast.net/~psolk/3monitorsa.htmlBackup RigAMD 4000 San Diego @ 2.72 Gigs Kingston Corsair XMS CL2XFX 7800 GTX 515/1350 Raid-0

Paul,>>EDIT: No worries Eric, but if you can manipulate it can I get an 850 please???80's with Eric Carmen ;-)) As to the 850 rating, ya gotta be a bit more subtle ;-) However, both Dell and Newegg are quite generous as regards folks like us who always need mo betta stuff, LOL.jbUtility links & FS stuff: [a href=http://exmixer.com/]exmixer.com[/a]

Sorry, it is Friday at 7:15 so the drinks and fun stuff have already started flowing as I do EGLL-LLBG in my LVL-D right now ;) Don't know where I pulled Eric out of...OK a bit more subtle, how about 790 LOLAs for me, I really am in Network Security despite the dumb signature ;) I work with a lot of the Fortune 50, some Gov't agencies as well but mostly public sector everything from Boeing to DuPont to GE (including GEAE GE Aircraft Engines)to IBM to Financial Services (who don't let you say there name)to UPS. Pretty much if you can think of a large company I work with them. I am an ex-IBM'er myself...Guess that is why I dove into that Networking 101 lesson in the post above :)Have a good one,-PaulEdit: Between my 24 inch Dell widescreen and my two systems, Dell and Newegg love me, or is it the other way, hmm it could be a true mutual love...

>Btw, you may or>may not be 'safe'...hardware router, XP firewall, Avast! or>similar, etc. Maybe then you're protected .>heh, I feel pretty safe on the system I was posting from earlier...it's behind a hardware firewall appliance which is all anyone will ever see from outside. Now the rig I'm typing on right now is not well protected...I could drive a truck thru this one.Rhett

Paul,>>OK a bit more subtle, how about 790 LOL<.jb