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Friday, May 1, 2009

Finding the IP address of an email sender in GMail, Yahoo Mail, and Outlook

Let’s go ahead and take a look at how you would do this for Google, Yahoo and Outlook since those are the most popular email clients.

Google’s Gmail

1. Log into your account and open the email in question.

2. Click on the down arrow that’s to the right of the Reply link. Choose Show Original from the list.

Now here’s the technical part that I was telling you about earlier! You need to look for the lines of text that start with “Received: from“. It might be easier to simply press Cntrl + F and perform a search for that phase. You’ll notice that there are several Received From’s in the message header. This is because the message header contains the IP addresses of all of servers involved in routing that email to you.

To find the first computer that originally sent the email, you’ll have to find the Received From that’s farthest DOWN. As you can see from the above image, the first one is from a computer called “aseem” with the IP address 72.204.154.191. Then it was routed to my ISP’s server at eastrmmtao104.cox.net and so on and so forth till it got to your email server.

The computer aseem is my personal home computer and that’s my public IP address for my house! I’ll go through Yahoo and Outlook before talking about tracking the location of that IP address.

Yahoo Mail Beta

1. Log into your account and open the email (if you’re using Yahoo Mail Beta with the new preview interface, make sure you double-click on the email so that it opens in a new tab)

2. At the top right, you’ll see there is a drop-down option where Standard Headeris selected by default.

3. Click on it and choose Full Header.

Again, you’ll see the same information as before, just in a different window:

Microsoft Outlook

1. Open the email in Outlook by double-clicking on it

2. Go to View at the top menu (the menu options for the email, not the main Outlook window) and choose Options.

You’ll get a dialog box where you can set the message options and at the bottom you’ll see the Internet Headers box. For some silly reason, the box is very small and you have to scroll a lot, so it’s best to simply copy and paste the text into Notepad to view it more easily.

Tracking the location of an IP address

Now that we have our originating IP address of 72.204.154.191, let’s find out where that is! You can do this by perform a location lookup on the IP address. My favorites are IP2Location and GeoBytes IP Locator.

GeoBytes gave me a big map of New Orleans, LA along with a bunch of other information about the location itself.

IP2Location also gave me the same information pretty much, including the ISP (Cox Communications). Of course, this is correct since I live in New Orleans!

If you want more information, you can do a WHOIS database search also. My favorite one is the ARIN WHOIS Database Search. This will give you information on who hosts that IP address and their registration information. You can always contact them to try and find more information on that particular IP address.

Have fun tracking down those emails! Questions, comments, or suggestions? Post a comment!

Tuesday, April 28, 2009

Download FREEv Windows XP with SP3 via HTTP or Torrent

http://www.tipandtrick.net/2008/download-unmodified-original-windows-xp-with-sp3-integrated-full-retail-and-vl-install-cd-iso-image-from-msdntechnet-plus-via-http-or-torrent/

Download Unmodified Original Windows XP with SP3 Integrated Full Retail and VL Install CD ISO Image from MSDN/TechNet Plus via HTTP or Torrent

Microsoft has released Windows XP with Service Pack 3 integrated or slipstreamed as full bootable setup installation CD in ISO image format to MSDN or TechNet Plus subscribers. As usual, the ISO images for many versions of Windows XP with SP3 CD or DVD ISO images have been leaked to Internet for free download. Here’s a collection of unmodified, untouched and original copy of official integrated Windows XP with SP3 slipstreamed ISO images as if when the CD images are downloaded from MSDN or TechNet Plus servers.

Almost all versions of integrated Windows XP with SP3 full install CD or DVD image in ISO formats are published. For example, Windows XP Home and Professional Edition, and both versions for retail and volume license (VL or VOL) customers, where retail version now does not require a product key to install, while VL version requires a volume licensing product key (VLK) to install. There are almost K, N, and KN releases, which is meant to customers in countries which enforce antitrust regulations. All integrated builds for Windows XP SP3 is of 32-bit (x86) versions.

Note: If you’re looking for standalone update package that will install Windows XP SP3 on your existing XP SP2 or SP1 system, check out the Windows XP SP3 direct download links from Microsoft Download Center or direct download links for Windows XP SP3 from WU server.

Windows XP Professional with Service Pack 3 (x86) Retail CD (English)

Direct Download via HTTP:en_windows_xp_professional_with_service_pack_3_x86_cd_x14-80428.iso
Download with BitTorrent Torrent Client:Windows_XP_Professional_with_Service_Pack_3_(x86)_Retail.4169906.TPB.torrent
Size: 589.14 MB
MD5: F424A52153E6E5ED4C0D44235CF545D5
SHA1: 1c735b38931bf57fb14ebd9a9ba253ceb443d459
ISO/CRC: FFFFFFFF