Why would my IP address show up in my browsing history?

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In the last few weeks our IP address is showing up in our browsing history. What would make that happen? When you click on that it takes you to the main screen of our yahoo email signon page, any clue as to what or why that would be happening? I'm worried we may have something like a spyware or hacker issue... Not that we have any assets or an idenity that anyone would find worth stealing!!!

Update:

The Number showing up is actually 11 digits ie: ###.###.###.##

Thats my IP address isn't it, can you tell I am super tech savy?

Anonymous · Accepted Answer

do you mean 192.168.2.1 , 192.168.1.1 , or another IP?

that is probably the physical IP address of your router... it's just showing the first point of the rout to whatever address you're trying to connect to...

pull up your command promp and type

tracert google.com
then press enter

it should say "tracing route to google.com [## ### ## ###]
this is just the start of the route which your data travels to access the given site (you can replace google.com with any website)
it shows the logical addresses of each switch/router that your information travels to... it's pretty cool, usually you route to 15 - 30 different places before you access the given site... i.e. NC to CA to Houston, TX, to ...etc. until it finally accesses the information 
showing that address is nothing more than showing one part of the rout that your info travels... it's nothing to worry about

if you have any more questions then feel free to e-mail me

? · Answer

Thrs no longer something to stress approximately this IP handle difficulty, lol! even if, if u wanna try this quite secretly & if u r sharing a working laptop or computing device & is afraid of being found out use a nameless proxy as defined in a prior respond.

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Why would my IP address show up in my browsing history?

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