I know that this may not be appropriate for this forum, but any help would be appreciated. Whenever my son logs into his Yahoo IM account he starts getting harassed by someone. The question is: Does someone have an idea on how to track and obtain the originating IP or location of the originating message. I am more comfortable with hardware than I am with software. Any ideas on how to identify this trouble would be greatly appreciated.
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Help tracing harassing IM messages 1
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kb5fet,
don't know if you will ever find out. if an aquaintence maybe - but if so you'd have figured that out by the screen name already. if it's not someone you know then I doubt you'll ever find out. either way i think it is important to report the harassment to yahoo (there are too many nut cases in the world). with documentation they should be able to shut down the offending account.
as far as finding out the ip - what if the user on the other end is on dialup / dsl - ip is dynamic.
regards,
longhair
don't know if you will ever find out. if an aquaintence maybe - but if so you'd have figured that out by the screen name already. if it's not someone you know then I doubt you'll ever find out. either way i think it is important to report the harassment to yahoo (there are too many nut cases in the world). with documentation they should be able to shut down the offending account.
as far as finding out the ip - what if the user on the other end is on dialup / dsl - ip is dynamic.
regards,
longhair
Set a block on that name. Depending which IM client you are using you would do this in various ways.
The offender can register a different account and start again, but it should also be possible to specify that you only receive messages from people in your contact list.
Add to this the fact some IM clients can be set to allow approval before you are added to a contact list and you should be able to stop the messages.
What client is it?
Hehe, actually, whats the IM platform and what's the ID of the offender?
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The offender can register a different account and start again, but it should also be possible to specify that you only receive messages from people in your contact list.
Add to this the fact some IM clients can be set to allow approval before you are added to a contact list and you should be able to stop the messages.
What client is it?
Hehe, actually, whats the IM platform and what's the ID of the offender?
Foamcow Heavy Industries - Web design and ranting
Target Marketing Communications - Advertising, Direct Marketing and Public Relations
I wonder what possesses people to make those animated gifs. Do you just get up in the morning and think, "You know what web design r
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