I need help with a personal problem

[Gonusto]

To anybody who can help me -

I need help from all you hackers and crackers out there.  There's some ass-fuck harrassing my girlfriend online and saying all this terrible shit to her.  Now the simple thing is to block the fucktard.  But I don't just want to stop there.  I want to know who this fucktard is.  I don't exactly know what I'm going to do with the information once I have it, but that's not for any of you to worry about.  They claim they knew us in highschool and I want to know which one of my friends would make my girlfriend cry.

So my plea to you is I need a crash course or something in how to track somebody across the web.  Or somebody willing to do the work for me.  All I've got so far is an AIM screenname . . . is that even enough?

Any help that *anybody* can give me will be greatly appreciated!


-Gonusto

[Kintaro]

If you get there IP address you can do amazing things... I dont know how to do this with A0L
Probably some Sicco, just block him.

[psyjax]

I know a nasty trick you can pull.  

Wait till he talks to you on IM, then don't respond, and hit the warning button all the way. There is a bug in the Mac OS 9 version of AOL IM that seems to boot PC people off of IM when you hit warning enugh times.

In any case, warning him up will make it a pain for him to type and unless you respond he can't warn you back. If he keeps typing just keep warning but don't say a word.

Finaly, just block his ass.

[Gonusto]

Okay, so after talking to this person myself for well over an hour, I've positive that they're someone that I know personally.  If they were indeed just some sicko, then I would block them and be done with it.  Unfotunately, based on the information they gave me, they're not just some sicko, but someone who knew me and my girlfriend rather well highschool . . . but they obviously weren't too pleased with the experiences they had with her and feel she needs to pay.

So I want to track this dick splash down and at least get a name.  After that, who knows . . .

psyjax, I like your solution a lot . . . but I'm on a PC, not a Mac.

Anybody else feel free to give me advice on how to solve this mystery.


-Gonusto

P.S.  I feel really bad about making such a request here, but this is honestly the only forum that I visit.  And I trust all of you guys to give me good information.

[ash]

Here

You still need to grab an IP address if you can, but this web site should be able to help, depending on what information you have and what information you want on them.

Good luck.

[psyjax]

You could get him to visit the forum and with one of these Multi goosberyclock type counter things see his IP.

Hmmm....

Can you get him to go to a site where you have images or something so you can log his IP? Do you know  a site he frequents... well, that's an idea anyway, prolly hard to pull off.

[Kintaro]

This is sounding quite serious.... we cant do everything here, try CALLING THE FEDS
there are laws against Internet Harrasment.
But if they post here.... somehow
We will help by giving you there IP and ridding the world of sicco's. I was in Linux the other day and i check my email.... Subject "The truth of winne the pooh" With "winne.exe" or something attached...
AND IT WOULDNT RUN IN WINE  
(i've always wanted to see Virii effects in Wine)

[Master of Reality]

quote:Originally posted by colonelteddy:
Here

You still need to grab an IP address if you can, but this web site should be able to help, depending on what information you have and what information you want on them.

Good luck.

www.happyhacker.org is a fun site    

isnt there an ip sniffer for whatever IM your using?

[ April 24, 2002: Message edited by: Master of Reality ]

[Gonusto]

Hey guys.  Thanks for everything.  I really appreciate it.  You've given me some good leads and I'll check into the sites that have been posted and do some searching of my own once I get a chance. Somebody's gonna pay . . .


-Gonusto

[Master of Reality]

if ya get his IP let us know.

[mskarl]

Ok there is a command like "nettrace" or "netstat"  I'm not exactly sure if that's the right name.  Search Google to find out.  Anyway to get his IP get him to send you a file or you send him a picture or something.  While it's sending run one of those commands and it will tell you what computer your connected through.  I've only tried this using Yahoo messenger but I'd assume this would work wil AOL also.

[Master of Reality]

quote:Originally posted by Anti M$:
Ok there is a command like "nettrace" or "netstat"  I'm not exactly sure if that's the right name.  Search Google to find out.  Anyway to get his IP get him to send you a file or you send him a picture or something.  While it's sending run one of those commands and it will tell you what computer your connected through.  I've only tried this using Yahoo messenger but I'd assume this would work wil AOL also.

ya.... i remember.. i had a progrma named net*** (cant remember) for windows and it would keep track of all my connections, so if you used it you could send him a file and find out what his ip is. I learned about the progrma from www.happyhacker.org
I will try and find it for ya  

[Gonusto]

quote: Ok there is a command like "nettrace" or "netstat" I'm not exactly sure if that's the right name. Search Google to find out. Anyway to get his IP get him to send you a file or you send him a picture or something. While it's sending run one of those commands and it will tell you what computer your connected through. I've only tried this using Yahoo messenger but I'd assume this would work wil AOL also.

How ironic!  I'd just come across something similar on another website.  And I've been testing it some of my buddies, just to make sure it works and so far there's only been one person who's IP address I haven't been able to obtain.

Anyways, what you do (for anybody who's ever used AIM or a similar chat program and know what I'm talking about) is directly connect to the person in question.  Then (this part requires Window or DOS, which I'm unfortunately still using due to a lack of time to learn anything alternative), open up a DOS command prompt and type "netstat -n" and that brings up a list of all connections to your computer and their IP address.  Then I pop on over to NeoTrace (or something similar) and find out exactly where this cocksmoker is.

So, now I've just got to be patient and hope they decide to show up online again.  Thank you all for your time and for you help.  Both are greatly appreciated.


-Gonusto

[Master of Reality]

http://www.happyhacker.org/HHA/fightback.shtml

[Master of Reality]

quote:Originally posted by Gonusto:


How ironic!  I'd just come across something similar on another website.  And I've been testing it some of my buddies, just to make sure it works and so far there's only been one person who's IP address I haven't been able to obtain.

Anyways, what you do (for anybody who's ever used AIM or a similar chat program and know what I'm talking about) is directly connect to the person in question.  Then (this part requires Window or DOS, which I'm unfortunately still using due to a lack of time to learn anything alternative), open up a DOS command prompt and type "netstat -n" and that brings up a list of all connections to your computer and their IP address.  Then I pop on over to NeoTrace (or something similar) and find out exactly where this cocksmoker is.

So, now I've just got to be patient and hope they decide to show up online again.  Thank you all for your time and for you help.  Both are greatly appreciated.


-Gonusto

linux is a powerful ally when doing scans and things like that. Tell us his IP when you get it    

what you can do once you get the IP is do a tracert (in DOS type "tracert ***.***.***.***") and you can send an e-mail to his abuse@hisISP and get him kicked off the internet.

[ April 24, 2002: Message edited by: Master of Reality ]