What your browser gives away...

[polonus]

Hi malware fighters,

look here: http://www.spyber.com/
or
http://www.plinko.net/404/supersleuth.asp

polonus

[tanya]

Got my city pinpointed, I was promted if I allowed it to view my clipboard tho. WAIT! What was that sound outside the door!

[szc]

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.

[oldman]

Only 60km? The last one of these missed me by about 600km.

[szc]

Well, my old ISP was around 600 km away. It's HQ was in Montreal and I live in Toronto.

[OrangeCrate]

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:

Linux

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.

[MikeBCda]

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.

[.: Mac :.]

Said my Location was in Denver, NC. Thats nearly 40 Miles away

[Lisandro]

Discover mine correctly

[polonus]

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

[drhayden1]

pinpoints me to the current location and city also-should i hide

[CharleyO]

***

Twenty miles away from me ... where the server is located.


***

[lee16]

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

[polonus]

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

[oldman]

You or the server must be waaaay out in the sticks. 

That is funny, no city given,