Question on Protecting IP address on Mac and other issues

Good day, I had a few security/privacy questions about Mac. i have a OS X 10.4.10.
1. Is there a way of blocking my IP addres when I surf on the internet.
2. MSN and Hotmail recognise automatically any previous IDs created using my Mac and show them when go on these sites. is there a way i c an block this?
3. What do I need to do to make sure that I have erased all information kept on this Mac about canceled MSN messenger accounts so that these are not listed when i log on that?
Any leads or help would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Dion

Hi
Glad to hear your problem is fixed. I would like to suggest that if anybody's advice was helpful to you or was outright responsible for solving your issue, please consider marking their individual posts as such, using the helpful or solved buttons in the headers of their respective posts, so others researching this forum to address a similar problem that they might be having know what worked for you and what didn't. If the suggestions were of no value, and you solved your problem by other means, I, for one, would be interested in knowing what you did, and I suspect others researching this forum trying to solve a similar problem that they might be experiencing would be interested in knowing what you did as well, so, in such event, would you please consider posting a description of your solution? In any event, you should probably mark this post as "answered."
Thanx
j.v.

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