Trillain ICQ IP Address Display

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June 14th, 2002, 03:08 PM
s0nIc

Trillain ICQ IP Address Display

Ok.. i know some of u probably know this.. but with the latest trillian version (i think this also applies to the old one), I just found out that you can view someone's IP address just by checking someone's information. and this has to be on an ICQ user... the ICQ details includes a IP Address field.. so yeah.. i just think this could be a security risk.. so i posted this here.. so all you people using ICQ.. becareful.. coz the people who are using Trillian.. knows your IP Address... :smokes:
::lurking:
June 14th, 2002, 03:21 PM
Matty_Cross

Yes.. you can see the IP address's of people on your contact list with Trillian.....
I saw yours only 5 minutes ago s0nIc.... and I'm using trillian 0.725..

And you don't even have to open up their profile.. just hover over their nick, and a tool tip will display with information on them.....
June 14th, 2002, 03:24 PM
emrys

damn....tht just shows ya how important firewalls are :)...or even NAT which is great :)
June 14th, 2002, 03:30 PM
s0nIc

its ok Matty, i can see urs too.. and whats bad is ur on cable, ur address is static..! hehehe
im on 56K.. my address is dynamic.. lol
June 14th, 2002, 05:02 PM
emrys

muahaha the 56k monopoly :)...muahahah
June 14th, 2002, 05:47 PM
Mucolaca

I thought that if u had the ICQ # that u could find there IP anyway, I have seen programs out there that found this out for ya.
June 14th, 2002, 05:53 PM
KissCool

It's not only a trillian problem. It's a problem with the ICQ system in general. During the first years of ICQ, you were able to view ip easily in the interface.

Now you have to use netstat or trillian but the security failure is in fact in AOL wallet which don't want to lost money with a new server system. :D
June 15th, 2002, 08:04 AM
the_new_guy

I installed an add-on to my ICQ and I can view anyones ip as long as they are online.
June 15th, 2002, 12:26 PM
Matty_Cross

Quote:

Originally posted here by s0nIc
its ok Matty, i can see urs too.. and whats bad is ur on cable, ur address is static..! hehehe
im on 56K.. my address is dynamic.. lol

Mine is static yes... but its still assigned through DHCP, so I can still get a new IP address whenever I want too... so what's bad is that I can flood you with your almighty 56k, and then get another IP Address, just like you... ;)
June 15th, 2002, 12:40 PM
bello

what a trillian! no security on ICQ, i think we should better be careful cos this is a security risk.
June 15th, 2002, 05:02 PM
morfius

Hahhahaha
I undertand what your saying bello...
LOL
Well trillian is a chat program similar to ICQ, but incorporates all these other IM services like mirc, aim and yahoo.

BTW i think you can only view people's IP who haven't got the latest version of icq.
June 15th, 2002, 05:24 PM
Prankster

I don't know, but when you are logged into icq when using trillian, you can set it to keep your ip address hidden anyway, so what's the big deal? You can also set it just to be available to people on your contacts list.

P
June 15th, 2002, 05:35 PM
Matty_Cross

Prankster... I assume this is a feature available only to users of trillian, not ICQ.... as I use both, and I've never seen any such option.........

So if your a straight ICQ user, then you can't hide it, unless the latest version of ICQ blocks trillian, which I doubt it does....
June 15th, 2002, 05:46 PM
Prankster

yeah, I never noticed it in ICQ, which incidentally I would still be using if MSN Messenger didn't keep logging me out every two minutes (damn microsoft) but you can set that option in the new version of trillian (0.73)