Tracing tools
From Spamhuntress
Tracing tools
Also look at Tutorials
These are tools of different types that I've found useful while tracing
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Tracing
- Official Rwhois | Rwhois Run rwhois queries
- trimMail Online tracing tools
- DNSstuff Online tracing tools
- Web-Max Reverse Whois
- Passive DNS Replication
- Dig
- Webcomindia tools collection
- Webbased Finger
- MX records - mailserver lookup
Programs for your PC
- Sam Spade for Windows good, free tracing program, but a bit old
- TextHarvest Free windows grep type program, that does more than grep in one go.
- Fiddler HTTP proxy between your computer and the internet. Slightlly easier to read the output than using sniffers. But make sure you use it with Firefox, not Internet Explorer. It's operating on port 8888
Other tools
- Network Query Tool PHP script for getting information about a domain or IP address.
- Wannabrowser text browser. Follows 302's
- Spam detector - for gauging the search engine spamminess of sites
Other lookups
- Multi-RBL check
- Completewhois multi RBL check
- URLinfo at Fagan Finder
- Chilling Effects searchable Cease and Desist letter database
Whois of various types
- Domain whitepages Whois lookup that also does a service scan
- Webhosting Info input IP number to see what sites are hosted on it
- Domainsdb input IP number to see what sites are hosted on it. Requires registration to get full list
- Domaintools Whois lookup with extras, including blocklist info
- Netcraft's site history gives a history of IP numbers used by the domain. Or this one Netcraft's uptime query
Whois for difficult TLD's
- .in India
- .name
- .su Soviet Union - phased out
- .tv
- .ws
- .md Moldova
- .kr Korea
- Allwhois links to lots of difficult TLD whois queries
Non TLD whois
- Centralnic
- dtdns.com
- cjb.net
- yi.org
- Wagoo and 199mb and realfreehost
Geography tools
- Geobytes IP Locator Find out where a US IP number is located. Also check out their Spam Locator for e-mail headers
- BlockAlert Identify spamvertising activity within IP block hierarchy
- Fonefind Find out if a phone number is legit. What area it's for and what kind of provider (cell or land line)
- Reverse country codes
- International dialing codes
- Babelfish For translating pages in languages you don't understand
- Worldlingo Free Website Translator
Profiles
- ICQ. Add the number of the ICQ account to the end of: http://www.mirabilis.com/whitepages/about_me.php?uin=
- Yahoo. Add the Yahoo ID to the end of: http://profiles.yahoo.com/
- MSN. Add the email address to the end of: http://members.msn.com/
- Adsense. Check out Jensense's expose
Look up spammers
- Link spammer pages - my database of linkspammers. Not complete. Search the blog as well.
- The Spamhaus ROKSO list
- Google Groups - pay special attention to the news.admin.net-abuse groups, in particular what's generally referred to as NANAE and NANAB. Hit Sort by date to find the newest info.
- Scambaiting. Sites with info on 419 scammers
- hpHosts A windows host file of malicious sites, with more information.
Decoding
- decode encoded javascript
- Javascript help
- Spamlinks
- Put this script in the address bar of Firefox while viewing a page with a script on, to see how the browser sees it: javascript:alert(document.documentElement.innerHTML);
- View Rendered Source Firefox extension A web developer tool that allows you to see the page how the browser sees it.
- Decode CharCode
- Bookmark for decoding javascript
