After reading the newbie guidelines and tutorials I’m a bit paranoid to ask my first question.

Well here goes: -

It’s about spamming programs that use the net send command: -

Is it possible to find out the ip address from the sender or am I missing something obvious?

I know you can disable the messenger service to stop these but that’s not the point. I can’t seem to find any info about tracing the ip from the source. On the message it only displays the ‘so called’ host name and message. I am trying to find out the ip of the source. I believe there are programs out there that manage mass messaging, that are supposed to give out a bogus pc id and ip. Although there are quite a few arguments in the forums about anonymity on the internet most that I have read say tracing is always possible.

There seem so many different network monitoring tools out there. Can someone recommend a good one for me to start with?

Thanks in advance.