Thought I would give you some answers.
1) In case a worse online situation arises than someone trying to steal money from me.
I think I asked what you hoped to accomplish, not why you were worried.
2) I was thinking a mapquest type program to give me the general location of where the message or chat is located. Not the exact location but a general location which is what Wireshack offers. Similar to the five free IP lookup services.
Wireshark gives you raw IP packet captures. You certainly won't get a map.
In fact, it depends entirely on what kind of chat you're using.
If you're using MSN messenger, all you're likely to find is message traffic coming from Microsoft's local server. Same goes for AIM or GTalk or Skype, or many other chat programs. Very few services do direct peer-to-peer anymore.[/quote]
3) It was a pretty nasty involved attempt to cheat me out of money. I gave up my email and personal info as I have interviewed online before with legitimate companies as an opening interview.
Do research on any company you interview with BEFORE you interview with them.
PS, your email address is generally considered public information. If they had called you on the phone with a blocked number instead, how would you have proceeded? Do the same via chat.
4) Someone who after viewing the logs had some catchy username and information about the hack from the log was flamboyant as to its intent and or creator.
cannot.... parse.... sentence.... wait... was that a sentence?
5) No I meant hacks in the past have crashed my Windows, but not for a few years.
I'll quote an old friend of mine, and security expert: "Most of the effects people attribute to malware, simply aren't. Most malware has effects that someone would never attribute to malware".
Copy and pasting it is not sufficient. Free and pay IPAddress services give you the zip codes are not useful when "chat" from someone with malicious intent is chatting with you.
Your writing is extremely hard to understand. Is English your first language?
Free and pay IPaddress services give you the zip code are not useful when chat..........dot..dot...dot.......dot.... -.- >.<
Sure I looked at Wireshack. It is rudimentary and worth some study, but not sure if it is sufficient to meet my personal needs.
Wire....Shark.... is the most advanced protocol analysis tool that I know of. But it doesn't automagically pull up a map and zoom in. You watch too much CSI. The Internet is complicated.
"We are aware of a person purporting to be named Michelle Burns falsely offering USAC employment opportunities."- Taken from Google. This person caused me to be an hour late to my job and I gave up personal information to her and her "partner" William McLean who had me fill out forms. to continue the interview process.
Hour late to work because of an anonymous chatter? Eeeek, don't get yourself in trouble over some chat.
The country info on Wireshack is close to what I am asking. I guess a fast program to scare away people in the future that would monitor messages including chat in realtime.
WireSha
Rk is a protocol analyzer and has nothing to do with "country info", so now I'm lost as to what you're talking about.
I am downloading this program to see what it can do. Is there a header you can open similar to email even if you are using a 3rd party chat. ie. A header available to people not part of administrative group of the 3rd party available to insert into Wireshack from the chat or chat log or is that kept serverside by the 3rd party company? That would have to be done manually and not in realtime anyway. Costly in time and or money if you want to contact the 3rd party about unwanted solicitations.
Nobody will give up their server logs without a court order. You won't find an email header in chat... In some rare circumstances you will have a direct peer-to-peer chat, but most of the time, you're just talking to the company's server. So.. probably out of luck there...
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