thanks a lot , you seem to have a good knowledge on this subject, now my question takes a lil twist, so someone can get my ip adress and figure out what’s my isp?(yahoo,msn,hotmail, etc.and if so then they can inqire about my info, I need to know this because my daughter says there are cops posing as kids in the chat rooms(wich I dont know if it’s true,)she says they can get anyone’s ip adress then get the personal info from the internet provider and charge the person(ussually old guys trying to pick up young girls), does this make sense? is it posible even for a cop to get the ip adress and if so I wonder how they do that since the chatrooms I allowed my daughter to chat you cant see anyones ip adress at first sight how would they go about geing it.
and do you know if an older guys can be charged with a crime just by chatting with my daughter? just chatting nothing nasty or anything but in a kids room, wondering just in case.

can someone get your ip adress from chatting in a regular web based chatroom??, I know it’s not messanger related but I am wondering cuz my daughter chats alot in the web and I want to be protected, please help, thanks.