[Ham-Computers] Email security question

[jeff]

On Sun, 2006-10-15 at 00:04 -0500, Brian K. Gaskamp wrote:
> I hope someone can give me some good info on the above subject.

it's only slightly less an oxymoron than military intelligence or
congressional ethics.



> For example, if someone has Web based email, such as Yahoo mail, Hotmail, 
> etc. and they suspect someone has figured their password out, and logged in 
> from another computer somewhere other than their home computer,
> 
> Can Yahoo or whomever  trace something to that nature,

I'm sure they keep comprehensive logs.  The logs will, at very least,
tell them the IP addresses of the logins.  That's a fairly good
indicator that you're off the hotlist.

Of course this assumes that whoever used your account didn't come
through a proxy or other stealthing program.

>  or would  the 
> computer's harddrive keep a record of when that email was last logged 
> onto...Time, date, etc

I understand that the messengers(AOL et al) keep pretty decent logs
locally and on the server.  This is because they have large phalanxes of
devils advocates, sent in to muck everything up further


My brain hurts now, so I'm off (way off) to bed.

Best of luck and if you have any more problems, let us know.