Re: logging/blocking aol/yahoo/msn instant messages

From: Gordon Ewasiuk (gewasiuk@gnmc.net)
Date: 10/18/01 

Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2001 00:42:36 -0400 (EDT)
From: Gordon Ewasiuk <gewasiuk@gnmc.net>
To: Chris Campbell <Chris_Campbell@fac.com>
Subject: Re: logging/blocking aol/yahoo/msn instant messages
Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.33.0110180039460.16145-100000@enterprise.gnmc.net>

On Monday, Chris Campbell wrote:

>I have been asked to log all aim converstaion, since I work for a financial
>firm and
>compliance wants to lock down information getting outside. Has anyone done
>this before, and can reccommend something to try? I thought maybe snort
>or something of the sort would maybe do it, but I havent really done my
>research yet. Thanks.

Hi Chris,

Dsniff says it can capture AIM, Yahoo, and a few other IM client messages.

http://www.monkey.org/~dugsong/dsniff/

-Gordon

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