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Comment from Erik on 2011-12-11

2011-12-11T12:43:30Z

Someone tried to get my ip address using file transfer via msn live messenger but blocked out by my norton 360. Did he establish direct connection successfully and manage to get my ip address in this way? Your kind help is much appreciated.

He did not establish a direct connection thanks to your firewall, but he may have your IP address. As the article points out, that doesn't matter since he can't do anything with that anyway.

12-Dec-2011

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Comment from Mark J on 2011-11-21

2011-11-21T22:54:11Z

@Lalit
The following article from Ask Leo talks about that. Unfortunately, there's not much you can find out from an IP number of an email.
How can I trace where email came from?

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Comment from Lalit on 2011-11-21

2011-11-21T15:11:02Z

Dear sir,
I want to trace I.P. Address of email sender , how I can trace pl guide me .
Regards.

Lalit

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Comment from james on 2011-09-10

2011-09-10T16:00:22Z

Plz wil u tel me the gtalk ip tracer ???
i hv added that person in gmail account, is there any possibility to trace his ip address ,, then i will able to find that man... will help me ,, its very serious matter wid him ... thanx

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Comment from sikandhar ali on 2011-09-01

2011-09-01T09:40:32Z

i need to know the yahoo messenger chat persons ip address some people use bad words some hurts so i must know them details of that person. is there any action can take to them the people who hurt by using bad words

I'm not aware of a way to get the IP address. If the problem persists I would complain to Yahoo customer support.

01-Sep-2011

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Comment from Ann on 2011-07-29

2011-07-30T00:49:12Z

How do you know if you are being scammed by a person on Yahoo Mesenger. ?????

Ann

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Comment from Kay on 2011-05-03

2011-05-04T03:27:53Z

Actually there is no way to accurately get one person's ip address. Even if you do get an ip address, you wouldn't be able to find anyone by it since a whole neighborhoods could have the same ip address, sometimes whole towns.

Not to mention, most ip addresses will trace back to the service provider, with exceptions of course. There is no reason you would need one anyway and stalking is really unnecessarily.

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Comment from crackconfig on 2010-09-11

2010-09-11T18:29:03Z

sir, during the gtalk chat ! i find ip addresses by netstat -n---it shows port 5222 with someone's ip!
but its not the real ip . i wana find the real ip address if the person is not even behind any firewall..can tcpview make it this too !!

waiting 4 d answer !!!

crackconfig

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Comment from SparK on 2010-01-04

2010-01-04T23:07:44Z

Actually you must send a file to your friend through msn, even it being server based his IP will appear in the file transfer. Then with the IP you can use tracert on command prompt to see which servers it is passing through. There are a lot of websites who can tell accuratelly the location based on your friend's IP (google it). And finally, you can use a tool like nmap to see which ports are open on his router or his computer, in some cases, then you can send info directly to these ports using telnet, echo > with a "virtual mounted device" that points to his IP and many other 3rd party tools.

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Comment from Harry on 2009-09-16

2009-09-16T12:11:29Z

Someone added me on msn, and bascally said:

'ive retrived you IP address and your not who you say you are, im reporting your IP address, expect a letter in a couple of days'

are they being idiots or whats happening?
Im 17 and my parents pay for the internet, i live in Britain, and i havent done anything illegal etc on the internet, besides normal porn which i dont tink is illegal.

The guy hept trying to coax me into going on cam etc and saying i was fake, i didnt even know the person and then he said all that stuff when i didnt go on.

Please Help me

Sounds like someone's just trying to scare you. Ignore him.

16-Sep-2009

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Comment from Adrian on 2009-04-14

2009-04-14T12:37:21Z

Very nice article,

here is a good tool to get someone IP address
how to: http://www.myiptest.com/article.php/find-other-person-ip-address.html

link to tool: http://www.myiptest.com/staticpages/index.php/how-about-you

FWIW: this tool requires the other person's cooperation. If they're willing to cooperate, there are easier ways.

- Leo
14-Apr-2009

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Comment from Mon on 2008-11-13

2008-11-13T21:23:26Z

Actually, I had a chat with my friend using MSN and I could see his ip on netstat, however every other time I couldn't. This was the only time and it was using a quite weird port number (port 35631). I loggod off the msn, and after loggin in again this connection disappeared. Does anybody have any idea what could that be? Thanks for any advice.

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Comment from Khalid Rauf on 2008-10-27

2008-10-27T11:21:17Z

Dear ,

Very nice article . But i could not beleive that ip address tracking while using any IM is impossible as there are certian tools available.

With Regards,
Khalid Rauf.

Yep, there are lots of tools that claim to work. They're unreliable, wrong and in many cases just plain bogus.

- Leo
27-Oct-2008

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Comment from Malavade on 2008-07-29

2008-07-29T07:40:49Z

http://www.tracemyip.org/
this website works
but how does it work..
if u find answer to this question then i think u can find ip adress of a chatter..
try using this below tool to get some awsome queries on ip adresses http://www.foundstone.com/us/resources/proddesc/vision.htm

Tracemyip *fails* more often than it succeeds. It's 300 miles off for me, for example.

The "Vision" product looks pretty much like the free tool TCPView available on the Microsoft site: http://ask-leo.com/d-tcpview.

I'll keep saying it: there is NO reliable way to trace an IP address using only publicly avialable information. Only police and law enforcement can do more with a court order.

-Leo

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Comment from manmeet on 2008-05-29

2008-05-30T03:54:40Z

nice article very interesting.i would like to know whether we can just come to know the geographical location of the person we are instant messaging?

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Comment from jenny on 2008-03-03

2008-03-03T10:31:25Z

an unknown person sent me a message in friendster, can i locate where he is, he may be using a home computer

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Comment from lucas k on 2007-11-27

2007-11-27T20:32:19Z

hello
iv been having problems with my best mates msn account. some1 hacks into her account and starts giing all her friends grief and its no getting out of had. i just want to know how i could find out the ip address this hacker is using so i can pass it on to the right authorities.
please help!!

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Comment from Rob K on 2007-08-09

2007-08-09T21:59:27Z

I used Abika.com and paid $100.00 to have them trace a AOL Instant Messenger (AIM) screen name. They reported back one week later with the physical address and IP address of the computer. Called the address and got the problem taken care of. Believe me, it's well work the money. They send you an official document also to take to law enforcement if you have to.

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Comment from theresa on 2007-07-30

2007-07-30T13:40:58Z

Leo you give excellent feedback

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Comment from PACh on 2007-07-30

2007-07-30T08:14:41Z

all that is true but, here is something that could be helpfull:
If you want to nkwo the IP of somebody thru an IM system the easiest way is try to send or recieve some file from the other user, this will make a direct connection between the users (this wont work always but most of the times do)
In any case if you dont truyt the person, dont open anything this person send you.
I think is not likely that you will meet 2 persons that are behind the same router. even if you do you can ask the person where is he/she located. if he lies, well he is already not saying the true and is not trustfull anyways...

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Comment from Carl on 2007-07-28

2007-07-28T14:56:26Z

Very interesting article I find,no further comments.....

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Comment from Andrew on 2007-07-27

2007-07-27T09:52:43Z

So, does this also mean that someone could log-on from different machines, ie from their workplace, and then say an hour later from home, giving different IP addresses, but actually being the same person. If this is the case, it would be even harder to identify that person. There are sites that give the 'exact' location of any given IP address, but on entering mine, are not always accurate, although sometimes frighteningly close. When using Tor, I appear to be at different locations - all over the world. Is it possible that some people can combine Tor (or similar) and their IM application to further muddy the waters?
Andrew, France

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