*First time poster*

I have to say all this information has been extremely inciteful. I putz around with PC’s but nothing to the level you people are talking about.

I recently went into a yahoo chat room to discuss my views of a recent movie. A heated debate got started and a day or two later was contacted by someone in the in the room saying the person I was arguing with the previous night was bragging that he had a friend get my IP address obtaining my home address and was launching an attack on my PC. I had pm’d the person I was arguing with but never this “friend” who supposedly is attacking my PC.

So I guess what I’m asking is: If a person is pming you is there any information they can send to a friend to have them trace your IP? Also if they did get my IP if someone is a higher end PC user can they go as far as getting my home address?