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 Feb 26 2006, 07:28 PM
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well a friend of mine told me that when you direct connect with someone on AIM theres a chance that they could hack into your computer if they know how. is this true?!
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| *mipadi* |
Feb 27 2006, 02:59 PM
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When you connect directly to another user via AIM, you essentially broacast your IP address (a number unique to your computer at a given point in time) to that user. The user can discover your IP address by using certain utilities, such as Windows' traceroute utility.
This isn't necessarily a bad thing. The user still needs to bypass security on your computer to really do anything--so it's not like the average joe can hack into your computer. |
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| *kryogenix* |
Feb 27 2006, 05:17 PM
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QUOTE(mipadi @ Feb 27 2006, 2:59 PM)  When you connect directly to another user via AIM, you essentially broacast your IP address (a number unique to your computer at a given point in time) to that user. The user can discover your IP address by using certain utilities, such as Windows' traceroute utility. This isn't necessarily a bad thing. The user still needs to bypass security on your computer to really do anything--so it's not like the average joe can hack into your computer. netstat also works too right? |
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| *mipadi* |
Feb 28 2006, 09:10 AM
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QUOTE(kryogenix @ Feb 27 2006, 5:17 PM) netstat also works too right? Yeah, any network monitoring utility, including netstat, will suffice as well. |
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