I was reading this thread
http://www.antionline.com/showthread...hreadid=271877

The second post read:
5. I do not know about login sessions, but all chats are clear text unless you specifically set up AIM to be encrypted. MSN and Yahoo don't have any first party encryption, but there are 3rd party tools, only problem being both sides of the conversation must be using the software.
I used netstat to get what port AIM was on and was wondering how you would read the information that you get on this port using a program that I wrote.

Also, I got AIM at the address "oam-m15b.blue.aol.com". Is there a way to get the port number returned using this information and an API or anything? But I think that it always uses port 5190 anyway.

If other programs are already using this port (such as a filter program), would that change what is read in the port by the program? (I'm not sure if the filter program sends or recieves any information through that port, it might just be watching or something)