IP tracking

[Geoffrey Alexander]

QUESTION:-
Dear Forensic Ideas,
Can anyone answer this question: is there such a thing as a programme that can track an IP address across the Internet, showing all the sites that a particular computer has visited?
Many thanks,
Geoffrey Alexander

REPLIES:-

there is no such thing Big Brother !

Unless you hack the guy's computer but I'm pretty sure it's not legal... ;)
Max (maxime....@gmail.com

If you are looking at a particular computer you can view the Index.dat file determine where the user visited.  As far as following an IP address, you would run into issues at the gateway where the packet leaves the network because the internal IP may be changed to reflect that of the gateway router.
Larry Moss  larry.go...@gmail.com


from javascript point of view
It is possible to access the history of a browser window. The history is the list of places the user has been.

window.history

For security reasons, all you can do is navigate through the history; there is no way to get the URLs of the pages contained in the browser history.
but i guess your requirement is something different( to obtain browser history ) , you may opt for a keylogger...

please tell me the solution after you get it.........
 RANAJIT KOLEY (rajaran...@rediffmail.com)

THANKS for your replies, disappointing in a way.
In my (naive?) view I thought there must surely be a programme out there that scoures the Internet and searches for I.P. address trails; after all, there are umpteen 'Stat Counters' that record the IP addresses and approximate locations (as well as type of operating system, browser used and so on) of surfers, surely, therefore, it seemed to me it could not be all that difficult to harvest IP info and sort it by IP address, thereby creating a perfect history of any one computer's Internet browsing, without having to go anywhere near the computer itself. Google Analytics has this more or less built-in, or so I imagine.
Would such a programme require a hacking element in order to work?
Perhaps; are there agencies who have found ways around this?
That is what I am getting at. I am not asking in order to do this (though it might be fun to try), I am asking to find out whether it is already being done.
I hope this makes sense and any further hints would be appreciated.
While on the subject, any info on effective 'Deep Web' search tools would be appreciated.
Geoffrey.

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[L. Sinclair MacHee]

Here's  an analogy for what you're asking: "You are standing at the corner of a busy intersection watching the cars go by, some go north, some go south, some go east, some go west, some were going north then turned to go east, etc., etc.  You want to know the home address of these cars.

1. Yes, all the cars have license plates (IP address), although some licenses are temporary (dynamic IP.)
2. The cars that get funneled through a "toll booth" (ie Google, Yahoo, etc.) pay their "toll" change with their license plate.
3. AND they also show the toll booth operator WHERE  they want to go.
4. AND the toll booth operator TELLS sees where they GO (per click count). 
5. So YES, the toll booth operator can record this information to the extent of the cars that come to THAT toll booth. 
6. You can at least do the same by tracking who comes to your website.
7. No, you can't get ALL because traffic does not go through the "toll booth."

In summary a destination will get IP information, that it (the destination) could record.  Disregard the "little donkeys" that don't know anything, but have answers for everything. 

 

Deu

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