how do you identify an ip address (potential haccker?)

lookup ip address of hacker

[enaid]

i know there is a program or website where you can identify an ip address... how do i do this?

what is an Extreme Trojan horse?

what are the key signs you're under attack?

thanks for anyone's time toward this. i feel SO incredibly ignorant and now vulnerable.

-enaid

[collymellon]

you need a spyware program - free from microsoft.com

Do a system scan aswell using a virus scan program..

Doing these two should find anything on your pc that is a threat and let you delete the files...

[outrun]

Welcome to Webmasterworld enaid.

Trojan horses vary but if it is a well thought out one it will not let you run any antivirus programs (e.g prorat) and they can be a pain to get rid of. As for signs of one on your machine they can be none because they don't want you to know they are on your computer. Best to look through all your running services see if there is something suspicious and as colleymellon said do a virus scan if you can. And make sure your computer is up to date with the latest patches, service packs and hot fixes.

[Romeo]

identify an ip address... how do i do this?

Hi Enaid,

you can gather information about an IP address by doing some research with tools like 'nslookup', 'whois' and 'traceroute'. On a unix system, these are handy command tools ready for use.
And there are web pages which have these tools available online for public use, too. You may search for these tools in Yahoo/Google/MSN and will get a lot of hits.

From combining the results of these lookups, you should at least be able to locate the network provider of that IP address.

A next step to gather more information could be to try to connect that IP address and see if there are common services like smtp, http, ftp or telnet running. Mostly, there are no such services, but sometimes there are, and ftp- or smtp- server greeting messages may be very helpful.

Good luck and regards,
R.

[enaid]

thanks SO much for the advice. i can actually do that myself! my machine is running strangely- hence why i was tipped off. processing unusually slowly in places... snagging here and there. the trojan horse scared the bejeezus out of me. (well.. still does.)

-enaid

[enaid]

unix yeay. microsoft boo. need to learn more how to implement unix. intimidating process.

thanks again!

-enaid

[kwngian]

Windows, you will need to do a ping -a followed by the ip addresses.

But you probably won't need it. Yeah.. BOO!