Is it possible??

[yanksfan]

Originally posted here by morfius

The person who wrote the melissa virus, or one of the variations used microsoft word to edit the macro. Little did that person know that ms word embeds a GUID into the file, showing the MAC address of the computer. And from the MAC address the FBI tracked em. [/B]

Holy !@#$, now I really think microsoft has connections with the government.....anyway how is it possible to track someone down if you have their MAC address?

-Mike

[Showtime8000]

Theres a WhoIs on AO? Where can I find it?

[detoxsmurf]

I know that AOL assigns IP's to a certain telephone number (for dialup users). By doing this they can track down the general area you are at. I'm not sure if they trace it back to the home phone number or not. If they log incomeing phone calls i'm sure its possible.

[smirc]

Me and my friend were discussing about the power of some WhoIS tools. Is there a way an ISP can track your physical location (city, state, etc) using your IP?

In theory, IP addresses and physical network topology do not rely on one another so there is no guarantee that an ISP can track down a person by using there IP. In practice, it's a lot easier because the ISP can use their logs to work out which IP was allocated to a given user and then just look up their details (which usually include their address). If this information is falsified, it makes it pretty hard for the ISP to figure out where the attack came from.

But keep in mind that the hard part isn't proving which machine an attack has come from. The majority of cases against hackers fail because it can't be proved who was physically using the machine at the time of the attack. In other words, IP numbers identify computers, not people. But if you use AOL, it's a lot easier to get caught because usually your mother dobs you in.

[retoor]

Whoah! Didn´t know you could get serial# of CPU and such through network!

[git]

yeah I read something on those GUID's that GUID set to that one file, and even if its been edited it still has the original guid on there. thats a burn, but then again virus's arent fun.