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Comment from Leo A. Notenboom on 2007-08-21

2007-08-21T20:38:14Z

I'm closing comments on this article.

Please read How do I find out who's at a particular IP address? for more information on tracing IP addresses, and what it takes to do so.

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Comment from Patricia on 2007-08-15

2007-08-15T22:24:14Z

my computer got hacked into by someone who keeps changing they're name on yahoo. but seems to keep the same area in mind from [email address removed] to [email address removed] which is just recently. well here's my problem, they have managed to not only hack my computer but also my razor phone and sent everything from my txt's and instant messanger conversations to my spouse and all his friends. this person claims i know who it is but when i get the emails it keeps changing from i to we and they wanted me to just leave my husband for them..i feel like i'm on a lifetime movie. i don't know what to do..can anyone help and what really sucks is all this started when i started to talking to a friend who is in the Navy..apparently IT's have a whole new way of life in the military.

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Comment from Leo A. Notenboom on 2007-06-07

2007-06-07T22:51:24Z

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You must live close to your ISP's point of presence, because it's still only
information ABOUT YOUR ISP that these services can return. They CANNOT go
further, unless your ISP makes the information public.

In my case, they're 300 miles off.

Leo
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Comment from auntypizza on 2007-06-07

2007-06-07T11:46:29Z

I found this site:
http://www.auditmypc.com/anonymous-surfing.asp
which told me my EXACT CORRECT suburb, with a map.
Will be looking into how it's done.

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Comment from nelaon.a on 2007-06-06

2007-06-06T16:53:33Z

I am working for an IT security training project.Is there a way to get web site address and phone number by IP Address?

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Comment from ss on 2007-05-30

2007-05-30T16:37:34Z

IP address 69.120.95.217
Hostname ool-45785fd9.dyn.optonline.net
ISP Optimum Online (Cablevision Systems)
Country United States

here you go my friend prashant

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Comment from brian on 2007-05-23

2007-05-24T02:34:41Z

i had some kids say they were going to change my name on msn messanger. inorder to do that they had to basicly recreated a password because they must of knowen my security question i have both of thier ip addresses but i was wondering if u can somehow contact hotmail to get the last ip addresses from them so i can prove they did it cause im afraid they did more then that.

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Comment from Leo A. Notenboom on 2007-05-22

2007-05-22T16:08:10Z

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"The method in the article" doesn't get you the name of the person.

The best you can do without help is to identify their ISP - Internet Service
Provider. To actually identify the person you'll need that ISP's help, and THAT
will likely take a court order.

Leo
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Comment from edward on 2007-05-21

2007-05-21T21:04:51Z

hey leo i am trying to find out who a user of an msn account is, as he has been menacing people at my school. We have tried everything in terms of trying to talk it out of him (who he is) but to no avail. Will the method shown in the article work for the IP of this person's msn address??

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Comment from Lucian on 2007-02-04

2007-02-04T09:54:47Z

To get someone's IP from yahoo messenger conversation, go to start -> run and type cmd, then in the window type netstat, but before close any other open programs. This will show all your connections, if you have few, it will be easy to get their IP address.

To find information about it try http://www.ipgp.net

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Comment from Leo Notenboom on 2007-01-09

2007-01-09T23:32:47Z

You probably cannot. Most chat rooms do NOT make that information available.

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Comment from sousou on 2007-01-09

2007-01-09T23:27:35Z

good morning
how can I get the IP address of a person who is in a room in paltalk messenger?
I'm waiting for your respnse.
sorry if the this question is out of subject.

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Comment from julius on 2006-11-23

2006-11-24T03:30:26Z

yeah, try this site ip-adress.com,,,,,it will work wonders 4 u.....ciao

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Comment from Leo Notenboom on 2006-10-21

2006-10-22T00:22:46Z

Depends on the ISP. They certainly could.

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Comment from Dom on 2006-10-21

2006-10-21T23:49:15Z

Hi Leo, suppose someone knows your IP, and he calls your ISP, but your Ip is not static. My IPS can still give my personal information, even if my IP changes everytime? They keep a log with all the IPs they gave me?

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Comment from Joe on 2006-09-21

2006-09-21T14:28:10Z

Recently in June 2006 someone had posted my unlisted name and home address at a yahoo group. I was able to get their IP address and find out the location of the person. I have their yahoo ID and a copy of the posting of my address. I filed a complaint with Yahoo and they took the necessary action according to their TOS,which is being ban from Yahoo.
I still would like to know who this person is and how they were able to get hold of my unlisted address. I contacted the FBI and they said to file a complaint online, Internet Crime Center.
Any other suggestions?

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Comment from Leo Notenboom on 2006-09-05

2006-09-05T15:36:37Z

As I keep telling people, that type of service gets you only the region, not the address. In my case it's 20 *miles* wrong.

It does correctly identify my ISP, which is what I've been saying all along is all you can get.

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Comment from Murat Dil on 2006-09-05

2006-09-05T13:40:49Z

Please see www.ip2location.com

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Comment from Helper on 2006-07-25

2006-07-26T01:31:25Z

There is basically NO WAY for us common people to "track down" and pinpoint or locate a person to their house via the internet just by using the IP adress and hunting ourselves.

The closest you may get is obtaining their IP address, and going to a site like "Geobytes.com" and clicking "IP Locator" and it will give you what city they may be from. OTher than that... it doesn't get any closer than that.

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Comment from Leo on 2006-06-27

2006-06-27T17:01:17Z

I would login to your eBay account change the password and the email address asap. I don;t believe you can track the person yourself, buy you should report this to Ebay and provide them with the information - thay may be able to use it.

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Comment from Leo on 2006-06-15

2006-06-16T04:07:39Z

Only the people who run the website can tell that information. You can't get it yourself.

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Comment from extremely hurt in Ottawa on 2006-06-14

2006-06-14T23:57:25Z

Hello Leo, recently someone at my school made a piczo site making very mean and extremely hurtful comments about me and other people in my school, is there anyway to get the person's ip from the website so i can then contact the proper authorities as some of these remarks re very threatening?

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Comment from Leo on 2006-06-01

2006-06-02T02:31:48Z

No. Only Yahoo can do that, and they'd probably need you to involve law enforcement.

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Comment from Jose on 2006-05-31

2006-06-01T06:45:19Z

Hi, i like the way you are explaining this.. I hope that you can help me here.. Someone is taking over my yahoo email. I can't access it now.. Is there a way to know any information about the person whois accessing my email..

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Comment from Threnody on 2006-05-30

2006-05-31T05:04:15Z

Some one is poisoning everything I do and making my life a living hell.He has been trying to end my marriage by sending emails to my husband saying that I am cheating. I have his IP address what can I do with it? c220-239-141-178.eburwd1.vic.optusnet.com.au He is trying to destroy my life, and I have no way to end this. If you can help please let me know how.

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Comment from Ethical Hacker on 2006-03-28

2006-03-28T12:40:14Z

Hi Sameer, well you can get the IP address of the person you are chatting too on MSN or Yahoo, but there is a little more you will have to do. Ask the person to send a file to you or vica versa through the send file option of the IM. Then while the file is being transferred you can open the DOS Prompt and type netstat -n and get the listings of all the connections and ports opened from your system to any system or server on the net. But as netstat will give you many results you need to distinguish it, so I suggest that you take the snapshop of the listings and do the analysis later or user various softwares like ethereal etc. Otherwise there is no way to get to know the IP address for live chat or offline messages.

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Comment from Jeremy on 2006-01-20

2006-01-21T04:40:10Z

Lyn, It depends on what ISP (Internet Service Provider) ure using. Some use a static IP which means your IP address is always the same and some use an dynamic IP meaning the IP changes every time you sign on to the internet.

Jeremy O.

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Comment from Leo A. Notenboom on 2005-12-06

2005-12-06T17:24:40Z

The closest I could get from your IP address is "Instituto Costarricense de Electricidad y Telecom" in Costa Rica. I would have to contact them to find out more. It's doubtful that they'd tell me anything. So technically you can be tracked, if the people tracking you have law enforcement on their side, but most people do not.

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Comment from 7h3.r4gm4n on 2005-12-05

2005-12-06T07:50:09Z

I was wondering whether a person could be tracked after posting on a forum. After all, most sites record the visitors IP address.

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Comment from Bob Harris on 2005-11-09

2005-11-09T15:16:15Z

Following up on Ed Carver's comment that "you can use WhoIs to look up the registrant info for their domain:"

Is there a way to do this on a volume basis?

For example, create a text file & load it into WhoIs, or elsewhere?

If I enter 129.34.20.80 into ARIN WhoIS, I get IBM. I'd like to be able to find out the names of all companies where the IP is for their web site server.

Thx, Bob

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Comment from Greg Bulmash on 2005-10-18

2005-10-19T02:46:44Z

One other way to get someone's name and address is if the IP is for their web site server, it's a dedicated server, and you use WhoIs to look up the registrant info for their domain.

Now, given that almost every registrar offers anonymous registrations and few people surf from their web server, it's a fringe case, but it can happen.

What's more troubling, though, are cross-site tracking cookies used by major ad networks like DoubleClick.

A few years back there was news that DoubleClick was going to link up people's identifiable information with their IP addresses (when they logged in at certain sites, the DoubleClick cookie would register the login), so that as people traversed different sites where DoubleClick served ads, DoubleClick could track their surfing habits and pair those up with their names.

This caused a firestorm of anger among netizens and many major sites that used DoubleClick were deluged with angry e-mails.

Eventually, DoubleClick dropped the plan, but it's not impossible that some ad network could quietly do it. That's why many "spyware" killers also kill cookies from major ad networks.

- Greg

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Comment from Ed Carver on 2005-10-17

2005-10-18T00:53:56Z

I have read your funnies and they are great and with that in mund, I believe you are a man who can take a good question without becoming un-glued.
This isn't about computers, Just about the GURU setting them up named LEO NOTENBOOM. The question is, Why do you put your name all as one word and leave out the L in the Bloom part? Like, Leo, Not in bloom? Looks to me that you are in bloom with a face full of whiskers. I am jealous of that too, because I cannot grow a full beard as dark and straight as yours. And I am only 39. being born in 1927. Thanx
Ed Carver

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