Trilight Zone

[digital8]

On ICQ, it is quite simple to find a person's IP if he's hiding it. There are two ways: the easy way and the cool way.

The easy way: go to come.to/isoaq, download a crack for your ICQ version and you will see everyone's IP address in their info (this is for Windows. If you're using a Unix ICQ clone, you'll probably won't need a crack, 'cause it'll reveal IPs anyway. If not, go for try "the cool way").

The cool way: open a terminal window or another terminal (in Unix) or a DOS window (in Windows. The easiest way is to simply click start==>run and then type 'command' (without the quotes). To change the size of the window, hit alt+enter) and type netstat -a. This will display all connections and all listening ports.
Then, send a message (or another event, such as a url) to your target. Do netstat -a again (after the event is sent). You will see a new connection which will probably be in "established" mode. In the same line, you will be able to see your target's IP address.
So what's so cool about this way? Well, it could impress your friends, in case you wanna show them a hack but you don't want to use a simple crack (you wanna do this "the elite way").

"The cool way" also seems to work on other instant messangers. There should also be cracks for them.