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I read an article which said that if you dont allow Zonealarm in your computer acts as a server, you can get other’s IP who is chatting with you. Well, I tried, and I was successful. Oh, maybe I have to find out some way to hide my IP
Hmm, i’ll have to look into that, but you should probably check to see if the IP address that you acquired is one of the servers. Just because you acquired an IP address, doesn’t mean it belongs to the person. Also, it might help if you added some extra info. such as whether it was a Private Message, or if it was in a chatroom.
Okay, i tested this shortly after my post, and found that i was able to actually acquire an IP address, funny thing is is that i tested it with several people, and only got 1 IP address, which happened to be on the same network i’m on. I’m going to continue doing tests on this, but so far, nothing.
If you wanna ip sniff then run command prompt and type
CHDIR WINDOWS
it should change ur prompt to C:WINDOWS
then type
netstat -nthat will display all your current connections, but don’t worry unless you directly connect with someone they can’t get urz, plus there aren’t that many people who can bother you like that.
But yeah, that netstat deal is good if you need to telnet into a game server or something on a prog like WoS.
You can see an Ip using netstat but if it starts with 216 more than likely you have a yahoo server Id and not the persons Ip, which Is pretty much useless unless your a hacker or cracker ( there is a diffrence ) In any case Ip change with every dail up connection, cable,and dsl can be a static Ip or revoling meaning they change at rates from every 5 seconds to every 12 hours . So knowing someones Ip is no great thing. Yahoo Uses servers to connect you to messanger , chat etc. you can see an Ip if you are viewing a web cam or in a file transfer,then you and the person are directly connected hence showing real Ips both ways. Now to address the fact that your computer could be used as a sever you would either have to download a sever app or you have a trogan horse program on your pc. a good pratices is to do online anti virus scans and trogan horse online scans once a month Its a good way of double checking that you havent accidently downloaded a virus or trogan horse .panda offers a free online scan for viruses and sygate offers a online trogan scan , or you could use google and search for others .
If you wanna read a web page about what an Ip is good for read http://www.freddys-utilities.co.uk/ipaddress.phpOk, this is a rather old topic, but i must seperate fact from fiction.
1.) IP Address’s are easily grabbed through P2P events on Yahoo! Messenger.
These events consist of(but not limited too), Open PM/File Transfer/Webcam/PM Voice. etc. etc.
2.) Can Hacker’s “trace” your IP?
Well typically “tracing” means you are tracing an IP address to its origin or its route to that origin. So in a broad answer yes.
If you mean trace your IP to your Yahoo Name, that is obvious, if you have an open pm, there is your Yahoo Name and IP Address.
About 6 months ago, you could do a whole lot more without needing an IP address, when Yahoo! Really first started using P2P Packets.
But thats another story.
3.) Stealing Yahoo! Accounts/ Viewing Aliases
Ok now there are many many many ways to steal an account.
First off, the obvious way of stealing an account is Password Cracking.
Now, don’t get too worried, since there hasn’t been a straight forwards cracker in many a month.
They are all mostly simulation crackers.
So the chances of you getting your account cracked is around id say 5%. And most likely it wouldnt be on purpose.
Now the biggest way to stop your account from being cracked is purely obvious. Don’t have a common password such as(yahoo, yahoo123,yourname,yourlastname,birthdate,yourbf gf or whatever)
Make your password at least 8 characters long and mixed between uppercase and lower case along w/ numbers. And your account won’t be cracked.
Now, for the other obvious way to get a password.
Trojan horses.
Typically, Trojan Horses are very common.
Which works in your benefit, If you keep up to date w/ your Anti Virus Def’s, you are less likely to be infected.
Now, for another smei obvious way to get an account user/password is by downloading a booter from an untrusted site.
I wont list any sites, but there are a few out there, and also a few programmers out there that make backdoors and password stealers to grab your account user name and password from the registry then send it over YMSG protocol in their booter or whatever.Now, for the not so obvious and less heard of are the account exploits.
(oh yes they do exist.)
With the recent upgrade of YMSG 11 back in December, Yahoo had left itself wide open to a rather Serious Exploit.
This exploit was a specially crafted login request over YMSG Protocol.
it would respond back with the User’s cookie.
Now with the User’s cookie you are able to circumvent most Authentication(Now Yahoo! Has Patched most of this).There are still different ways of getting your account taken from you.
So the best way to not get it taken from you is by doing the following,
1.) Make your Password at least 8 characters consisting of Upper and Lower Case with numbers.
2.) Do not save your password on your Machine.
3.) Don’t download programs by Authors that you don’t trust.
4.) Don’t accept files from non friends. Especially “booters”Well thats my speal, hopefully it helps.
I am new to forums and how they work, however I came across one article that had to do with PM reading in Yahoo, how is this possible as I have also had some experience in this area, and would like to know how to protect what is supposed to be a private message between two friends, and keep it private. It is no ones business what I chose to discuse in a PM, and quite frankly I feel violated by Yahoo (who has not fixed this issue) and the Hackers who feel the need or right to invade a private message.
Can anyone help me please understand and stop this kind of abuse…Thank youUmm, could you be a bit more specific about your problem. I’m just assuming that someone has intercepted your pm’s, or at least has boasted about doing so. And that being the assumption, I’ll give you a little info about it. I have been doing a lot of “net-surfing” in the information sea of Yahoo “cracks.” And on these travels, I’ve never come upon a program that can intercept PM’s. What has probably happened, is that you or the other person involved in your PM has become infected with a trojan horse, which has in it a keylogger. These keyloggers can record any messages that you recieve or send, and many other things such as passwords typed in, programs used and so on and so forth. About the only thing we can tell you is for you and your friend to run a virus/trojan scan and hopefully you’ll find the culprit program. I’ll keep a lookout for programs that intercept PM’s, as I’ve seen several people boast about them. I have also helped several friends who have had problems with people “intercepting” thier PM’s, and they’ve turned out to be trojan horses. So like i said, about the only thing you and your friend can do is run an anti-virus/trojan scan.
i have some questions. Im on dialup which connects to a server miles away from where i live. I know that when i dialup i end up with different ip addresses. Is it possible to find out the actually town im in even if i live in the country? Also..someone said this..”Let me better explain the situation. If you are behind a firewall that would mean that you are not dial-up you are DSL and networked into other computers which would make you either in a school or work setting. Protocol would not change because that is the computer assigned number when connected to the internet even if you did dial-up it wouldn’t be any different because only certain numbers would change but would still give your location of town and state.” but im in dailup and they said when im in a message board they can get my ip address anyways? and what would they do with my ip address anyways…not like im some famous actress or idol?
i forgot to point out…that I do have a firewall installed on my computer adn this person is saying that i cant have one if im on dialup?
You can have a firewall with dialup. In fact, you can have both a software firewall (which is based on your computer, not what kind of connection you have) and a router firewall. To set up a router firewall, all you need to do is set a computer up as a server and have your computer connect to the server via a network connection. You will then have access to the internet on your dial-up modem, and you’ll be behind a router firewall plus you’ll have a software firewall. The person you were talking to is either very ignorant and just likes to think he/she knows what they are talking about, or they are lying to you on purpose, why, i dont’ know. I hope this helps.
i am tryin to find out where an aol user is and a yahoo user is, they say they r the same person but i do not beleive her, i did netstat but idk which ip goes to what program
Due to the nature of yahoo and it’s servers, you won’t be able to get thier IP address unless it’s someone you’re in a P2P connection with, or you’re PM’ing with them, but ONLY if they are on your buddy list. That’s the only way to get thier IP address, but why would you need to worry if they are the same person. Send them a message over yahoo asking them a question, and have them answere it on AIM, or visa versa. I honestly don’t see the need to find thier IP address to see if they are the same person. Also, another thing you can do is have them turn on their cam, which both yahoo IM and AIM can do, that would pretty much prove if they are both one in the same.
i am in pm with her, she is on my list infact i just wanna see if both id ips trace back to same ip or not
“backing up to johnsons post…..what is this program and is it still available to detect someones alias names and ip address if they were online???
… No. It never did exist, and still does not exist. There are a lot of rumors about the existance programs, such as those that you can use to view webcams without someone’s permission, or see their alliases or whatever, but they are all false. :rolleyes: Now that I go back and read Johnson’s post, I wish I had said something about all of what he said earlier, but I didn’t (dont’ know why either). I’m not going to get into that now cause it’s in the past. The answer to your question, again, is: the program never did exist, and never will. Yahoo doesn’t work like that and never did. The most that “hackers” can do on yahoo is steal an ID, and that’s not hacking, it’s cracking. Anyone who says otherwise is… well they’re stupid. >_>
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