IP Tracing {BTW}

[Serg B.]

This may help.

Many moons ago, while using MSN (on MS Windows) there was a way to
determine users IP address by sending them a file via an IM session.

I am not sure if they need to accept it or not however when you send a
file through MSN it does not (did not) get routed through a server.
Instead it went directly to the target machine. At this stage you
could run Netstat in batch mode (redirect to file) and then analyse
which IP address/connection you are interested in.

Hope it helps.

Rule of thumb though: Most of those SPAM scams originate from Russia,
China, Philippines, etc. It is pointless to get the law enforcement
involved here - they will not be of much use. I would simply limit IM
traffic on your network, that's all.

   Serg


On 23/10/06, C Hamel <yogich at sc2000.net> wrote:
> This is an IM within Kopete that I am attempting to trace, not an e-mail.
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