AOL does give you a different IP # each time you sign on. I’m on AOL and I’ve checked it with a little program available on the Internet. Type HACKERS into your search program, locate a hacker website and ask them what’s going on and often they will give you suggestions.
When she changes screen names, who does she give the new names to? It might be a warped friend or aquaintance.
Go here to check your IP.
Jtoomanynumbers: or type winipcfg/ipconfig/ifconfig (if you’re lucky.) in a shell/dos prompt.
Just ignore any techish advice here, Kricket. I worked in tech support for too long and we had hacking issues before with customers. 1. if she’s scared of him finding her, she should stay offline for now. until the police are involved. Definately DO involve them and definately save ALL emails and other documentation. Do not rely on printed hard copy as an expert can extract data from the originals that a normal user may not be aware exists.
I’m not sure if that’s verbatim what Gateway said. May have been that they meant ‘you don’t have the same ip address every time’. If he had gotten access to her hard drive (quite possible, depending on the circumstances) he would be able to access any personal documents there, including, oh, resumes? Resumes have addresses. If he has access to her hard drive via a trojan, it may advertise her presence every time she logs on. I -will- say that I am not familiar with AOL, having never used or supported it. Never even seen it, to be quite honest. If it is a trojan, zonealarm or any other decent firewall should keep him from reconnecting, unless its one I’m not familiar with, which is very possible (I’ve been out of the loop for a year or so)
Thus I say, stay offline if she is genuinely bothered by this. And DO involve the police. Any third-party help might be able to find out where this guy resides, who he is, but can’t really do anything about it.
I really hope Gateway gave her the same advice. If they did not, she got ahold of a cluebie tech.
So he is obtaining her new e-mail addresses, too? That is very weird, IMHO. Could someone have installed a keystroke interceptor on her computer?
The first thing I would do (personally) is wipe my drive in case of any keystroke interceptors or other spyware that might have been installed. I would never, ever acknowledge his e-mails either way. I would DEFINATELY be in contact with the police.
Zette