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Comment from clare on 2008-10-05

2008-10-05T09:39:40Z

hi there leo,
Am i right in thinking a convo can only be saved on to the disc of the pc the convo is taking place at?
is there any way at all a convo coyld appear on the disc when you are not actually at that pc using messenger?
My partner swears his pc was remotely hacked , becasue there is a convo on his disc that he swears was not made by him. is this possible?

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Comment from Vladimir on 2008-04-08

2008-04-08T14:10:50Z

OK, I have already tested the application for web chat, and an option was to RETRIEVE CHAT HISTORY... I could not believe it, chat history is stored on some Microsoft server, and now I'm looking for that application on the internet... Wish me luck, if I find it, I will post URL to app...
Best regards,
Vladimir

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Comment from Catherine on 2007-09-04

2007-09-04T09:09:56Z

A male friend has always claimed he is able to find my message logs from years ago, and has actually told me things about their contents that seems to confirm this, things that certainly have not told him. I really need to know if this is true, are all the conversations through messenger actually stored on a server, or space somewhere, that a very clever person can access. He has gained access to my email accounts, bank accounts, ebay accounts and the like, but i think that he has done this with a password catcher on his network. The conversations in question occurred prior to my machine ever connecting to his network and i have never been in the habit of saving my chat logs. Anyone have any ideas?

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Comment from Wiz on 2007-03-20

2007-03-20T21:32:53Z

Similarly to someones post above, I was speaking to a friend some weeks ago who said her sister had found a folder which contained allof the MSN conversations her Son had been having. The option to save your conversations in MSN was not checked. More so I just heard this evening that my friend did manage to find all of her sold conversations also, in a folder named "contracts" the exact location of which I still have to find out.

Anyone else ever hear of this ?

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Comment from Habeekm on 2007-01-24

2007-01-24T20:12:10Z

You could check:
c:\documents and settings\\my documents\my recieved documents\\history\ look if you can find the .xml files here!!

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Comment from Cameron on 2007-01-05

2007-01-05T22:54:50Z

[quote=Terri McCormack]Is there a log I can check to see if my son has been signing on to my MSN account at a specific time and date? I suspect he knows my password, which I know I can change, but I would like to know if I can see if someone used my account at a particular time and date. Thank you.[/quote]

There is. Actually it is not exactly easy to do, nor to understand, and it may be behond your knowledge of computers. First off, It is extremely simple if you know what you are looking at, but looks like an incredibly large pile of hay with a needle in the middle. All you would need to do is to log all the connection attempts (Sucessful ones that is) from your firewall and/or modem, and then just look at the log file and look for the internet protocall address that coresponds with the server in which msn messenger / messenger is attempting to connect to. You are looking for the connection on port 1863 from something like 207.46.110.71 (AS AN EXAMPLE. Don't look for this exact number, just look for the port number) make sure that you have timestamping enabled on the log file and it should be very easy to simply search the log file for "1863" (without the quotes) and then look at the timestamp.

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Comment from Leo Notenboom on 2006-10-25

2006-10-25T20:09:39Z

No, not that I'm aware of.

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Comment from Terri McCormack on 2006-10-25

2006-10-25T19:56:46Z

Is there a log I can check to see if my son has been signing on to my MSN account at a specific time and date? I suspect he knows my password, which I know I can change, but I would like to know if I can see if someone used my account at a particular time and date. Thank you.

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Comment from Dan on 2006-09-17

2006-09-17T23:44:20Z

After an MSN crash, I was convinced I'd lost a chunk of conversation as it wasn't added to the message log.

However, I downloaded GOOGLE DESKTOP and the search function on that is absolutely incredible. I typed in the display name of the person I'd been speaking to, and it came up the conversation!
I find it's an incredible tool for searching (a million times better than the 'find files and folders' in Start Bar) and lets you search conversations, deleted documents and old versions of webpages. {Just remember to make a copy of them once you find them, as they won't be there forever!}

Overall I'd say it's an essential programme. And best of all - it's free!

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Comment from kathy on 2006-09-06

2006-09-07T02:02:20Z

I have never seen and believe me I have searched a way to retrieve conversations that are not archived. Also, you cannot see archived messages on yahoo or MSN unless you are on the computer that generated the archives......the computer that was signed in with that account at the time messages were archived I mean. Hope this helps!

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Comment from Leo on 2006-04-11

2006-04-11T19:49:57Z

Maybe. The IT deparment could certainly be logging all traffic on the way out of the office.

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Comment from Rina on 2006-04-10

2006-04-11T06:35:57Z

Can someone please tell me....
If we use msn in the office which is running on a server, and we do not keep history of the conversations, can all the conversations still be retrieved by the IT dept?

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Comment from static on 2006-01-26

2006-01-26T21:18:50Z

download the program EtherBoss MSN logger..... this program, run on any pc on a network will record history from all computers on the network and log them in a single database..... Oh and it doesn't need to be on the computer the kids use

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Comment from Leo on 2005-04-29

2005-04-29T16:03:12Z

Nope.

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Comment from Paul on 2005-04-29

2005-04-29T10:52:25Z

is thur a way of seeing who the personm i am tlking to is tlking to?

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Comment from Leo on 2004-09-05

2004-09-06T04:13:34Z

Rebooting certainly won't recreate a file that has been deleted. You *may* have luck with an undelete utility, but it's a very slim chance - I actually don't have a recommendation for one - you might try Googling for one.

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Comment from zoton on 2004-09-03

2004-09-04T04:19:34Z

I accidently deleted the file containing a conversation from the "My Received Files" directory. (From what I remember it had the persons name followed by a lot of numbers). Now when I go to Tools/Options/Messages I cannot select "Automatically keep a history..." as it is greyed out. How can I recreate this? I thought restarting would recreate it but it doesn't. I'm using Windows XP. Can anyone help please.....

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