Tracing IP address help!

[metal_gurl]

hello guys and gals! I heard that this forum is the best, and now... here i am.

my request is, Can somebody tell me how can i trace IP address of the people I chat with on yahoo messenger? This is not for hacking or any other ideas you may have on your minds, but this is because, one guy did traced my IP address and i am scared that he might be some kind of psycho.

My purpose on knowing his IP address is, i wanted to scare him, that i also know his IP address, therefore he may stop on bothering me if he knows that i also know his IP address. he's just pissing me off!

thank you very very much in advance to anyone who can reply!

[WhiteMateria]

If this guy knows how to obtain your IP address then he probably knows what its use is for. I doubt he will be to suprised if you do figure out his own IP address cause it would hardly suprise me. Many people know how to obtain an IP address but then lack the knowledge of what to do with it. He might even be on a router or remote proxy in which case you would not even get his true IP address. Its best just to ignore him and block this person with your privacy settings.

[Netti]

I agree with whitemateria! But also IP addresses change every day and the best you can get is the IP they used that day. I know people have said that with a dial-up the IP changes everytime you dial in and with a cable or dsl they remain the same. However I am on a cable modem and it is programed to change every 24 hours. So, unless you are planning to run a scam, boot, or report this person, there is really nothing to do with the IP. Just ignore him.

[Oreo]

Has this guy given you any reason to worry that he's a pyscho and is going to do something? Or did he just tell you he had your IP?? If you don't know your IP chances are that he could have even been making it up. There are many ways to ignore him...put him on ignore and then take your name off of his list. OR if you are afraid you'll get him angry...just put him on ignore. And just slightly off-topic...I'd like to say that I'm happy to see that Snuggle and Netti are back!! I missed you two!!

[sweet_teen_chick]

Ok the same thing happened to me but the thing is like Netti said IP addresses change, the only best thing you can do is get a firewall so one else can find your IP address, and the best thing is it blocks who ever tries to send something . And if the fella is annoying like Oreo said take your ID off of his messenger and ignore him. You know when this happened to me I got scared for a minute, i didnt even know the guy and the thing was he was gonna use my pics and make a website about me but sometimes they can lie. So chill if you dont have any personal information on your computer nothings gonna happen.

[freddy]

Firewalls do NOT stop people seeing your IP address!

Firewalls block ports to the outside world so to make it look like your PC is not there. (Good ones do, some just close ports and let everyone know you're there, which is not as good)

To stop people finding your IP address, you should run everything through a proxy that doesn't forward your IP, you can find a few free HTTP proxy services, but you would have to pay for these services.

To get a Yahoo! users IP, when you are doing something in p2p mode such as cam, IM or file transfer, open up a command interpreter start, run and command.com(all windows) or cmd(NT,2k,xp) and type netstat to see a list of current connections.

[Johnson]

I steal people's ip's to trace what city they are in. Sounds harmless to me. But one thing to watch out for, if someone knows were u live, and knows your last name, they can very likely find out your address and telephone #. Online one thing you don't want people knowing is your last name, i have used peoples real names to trace their personal info. Ip's are virtually worthless, but if you d/l a lot of stuff, you should be very cautious, you need to make sure you don't have any trojans on your computer, if someone had your IP, they could scan u for trojans and then use them to gain remote access to your computer. To be totally safe don't d/l stuff. Personally someone telling you your ip isn't something to really be concerned about if you ask me. If anyone threatens their gonna hack me, i paste them my ip and tell them good luck.

[sweet_teen_chick]

Ok my question then is how do you stop a person from seeing your IP address??

[Johnson]

The only sure way is to not get online. Hackers are constantly scanning random IP's looking to gain access to them. If you use yahoo messenger, or send emails people that know anything about computers, they can find out you IP. If someone has your IP it's not really that big of a deal.

[metal_gurl]

see, thats the thing, this guy might use my IP address to gain access to my PC.. and Oh yah about what other people said that IP add changes everytime you get onlined, that only applies to people who have 56K modem, but mine is DSL so basically my IP is Constant. I do have norton personal firewall, but the is some kind of computer freaks, he's still my IP. So i thought, knowing he's IP might freak him, and made him think that I'm not the only one, co'z he can also be trace.

So jhonson, if you know how to traced IP, I'm gonna need your help plz!

thanks in advance!