[xcon]

I'm very new to this but my question is why my ip address keeps changing i went to shields up as i read in one of the forums great relief on my part but went back again to show my wife and it showed a different address should i be worried?

[hewee]

If you have dial up them each time you connect you well get a new address.

[RandyG]

It keeps changing because are being allocated an open IP by your ISP everytime you connect.

Even "always on" connections are going to refresh at some point and get a new IP address, unless you have contacted your isp and specifically requested (and more than likely pay extra)a Static IP, which will be allocated to you for your use only.

[hewee]

My cable changes the IP on me.

[xcon]

randy thanks for helping clear that up for me a few days ago pop-up says i have a Trojan horse could not repair i had know idea what that even was so i changed firewall and anti virus the found my horse an removed it i got this computer used (bad mistake on my part) who says blunt headiness don't teach you any thing! It is a dinosaur HP 500 MHz 255 ram 16gig when i got it it had windows 98 and windows xp pro on it the latter wasn't paid for i soon found out when i went to windows up date. now no more 98/ its got xp home on it now paid for thats when i found TSG all of you have been a savor to me i tweaked ever thing it runs very nice now after changing firewall&anti virus it is 5 times faster and thanks to a TSG tweak Internet explorer is faster than net scape.