How to hide IP address on Skype

Although it is a widely used video and voice chat application, Skype has leaked personal information of users for a long time. Many users, especially gamers, believe their IP addresses are attacked by hackers because of a security vulnerability on Skype.

1. Why hide IP address on Skype?

Once you have 'grasped' your IP address, hackers can use that IP address to perform denial-of-service attacks. As a result, you will not be able to browse the Web safely as before. If you are a player and you are attacked while playing an online game, then you will be disconnected.

Fortunately Micorsoft has promptly overcome security holes on Skype. On all new versions of Skype (PC version and mobile version), users can set IP address hiding by default. This means that no one can find your IP address.

If you are using an "old" version of Skype, it is best to update to the latest version of Skype on the Skype home page.

If you don't have Skype, you can download the latest version of Skype to your computer and install it here.

2. How to hide IP address on Skype

To hide the IP address on Skype on Windows operating system, follow the steps below:

First log in to your Skype account.

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After logging into your Skype account, click Tools in the top right corner of the Skype window, then click Options .

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On the Options window, click Advanced => Connections in the left pane.

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Next look at the right pane of the Options window, and you'll see the Allow direct connections to contacts only setting . If you want to hide the IP address on Skype, you can select Allow direct connections to your contacts only .

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Finally click Save to save the changes.

Refer to some of the following articles:

Conflict of IP address error when connecting to Wifi on iPhone, iPad, this is a fix

How to identify an unauthorized login IP address of your Facebook account

6 ways to view IP addresses on computers, smartphones or Tablet

Good luck!

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Samuel Daniel

Update 24 May 2019

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