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Can someone attempt to explain to me how someone iming me could have found my IP addy?
Please note: I’ve tested the netstat theory and my IP doesn’t show that way. Any other guesses? It’s really bugging me.
Quote:quote:Originally posted by deanna7564Can someone attempt to explain to me how someone iming me could have found my IP addy?
Please note: I’ve tested the netstat theory and my IP doesn’t show that way. Any other guesses? It’s really bugging me.
By Direct Connecting or Send-File’ing only.
Netstat is not a “theory” it is a fact. Netstat works, it doesn’t “sometimes” work. IP’s aren’t aways displayed, sometimes hostnames are, it is the same thing though.
It didn’t work. Perhaps that is because both users were on AIM/AIM Express and not AOL directly.
I have been playing with this for days now and haven’t found a way that this person could have obtained the information about me that he did…at least not using the netstat command.
As soon as you send a file or connect directly to another user your IM client goes into peer-to-peer mode. This means that instead of connecting and sending your messages through AOL’s server you are bypassing them and sending messages directly from your IP to your contacts IP. If you cannot see your contacts IP in netstat then it is because you are not connected with that contact directly.
Clear enough?
Check netstat while direct connected or while your sending a file, it should show. For awhile there were programs out that could steal your IP simply by sending a direct connect / file send request, but they have all been patched and no longer work.
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