How to find the location of your chat friend in Yahoo Messenger

Online chat services like Yahoo Messenger,gtalk etc really make our efforts to keep relations with friend very easy. Now the issue is when we start chat with an unknown friend met on messenger,how we can sure he or she is telling the truth. The most common way to make sure the chat friend is telling the truth is:

* Find the location of your online chat friend

Then the next problem how to find the location of your chat friend?


To find the location of your chat friend you need to find his IP address. To find the IP address of your chat friend the best way you can do is set a TCP/IP connection between your computer and your friend's computer. The steps to perform this are:

How to find the IP Address of your Online Chat friend

The steps to find the IP address of your Yahoo Messenger chat friend while chatting with him are:

1. Invite him to share a file in the middle of chat with him

If he accepts the file sharing and starts sharing a file there is connection between your computer and his computer starts. This make your computers in peer to peer mode.

2. Open command prompt and type netstat -n command and press enter

Now the list of IP addresses to which your computer has an active TCP/IP connection.





[ I recommend you to perform the same task before establishing the peer to peer connection with your chat friend and note the IP addresses at that time. It will help you to easily identifie your victim's IP address. ]


To get more details than the boring IP address ,you can use the following command.

netstat -a

Note:
Please note that while you process the netstat command your computer and his computer should have an active connection. If there is no connection at that time you will get only the Yahoo chat server IP address instead of his IP address.

How to find the location of your Yahoo Messenger chat friend

The next duty is to find the location of your Yahoo chat friend after tracking his or her IP address. To know how to find the location of an IP address click on the link below.

How to find the physical location of an IP address


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