Tracing Multiple Logins on the Same Account

Question

Okay, so this is an issue that I think needs to be dealt with. I get the feeling that my skype account is being used from another computer. This is evidenced by many of my contacts attempting to contact me while I am offline, stating that I appeared to be online for a short time while I was not, as well as confirming that during that period online, messages DID go through (As indicated by the lack of the little spinning gray thing or text immediately switching to a time as opposed to "Pending"). Now, I've already done the typical stuff indicated in the volley of useless copy-paste advice; 1. Changed password (Multiple times, but you HONESTLY think that this will stop a hacker with a good keylogger, or a bit of brute-force computing power, for very long?) 2. Checked systems for malicious software (Done multiple times, with multiple Anti-viruses. Nothing was found, but I don't expect them to be very good at finding potential Keylogger-esque things, especially custom well-made ones) 3. Watched internet access by programs (This I couldn't really do, since there's so many IP's addressed, and so many possible ways information could be forwarded to a receiver by a virus or whatever. It's near impossible to keep an eye out for suspicious processes on modern systems, since there are so many, and so many ways for a virus or spyware to hide within an existing process. Heck, for all I know it could be hijacking skype to do that, I'd love to know what those thousands of random IP addresses are that it accesses!) 4. Reformatted system (Done this many times as well.) Now I know some may feel I'm paranoid, but I have to ask; So what if I am? As a paying user of Skype, I feel that there is insufficient measures of security, and honestly, I feel that based on how matters like these have been treated with only the typical cut-n-paste "change your password", it seems like it's taken as a joke! So, because of this, what I want to know is what options I have to trace the history of logins to my skype account based on IP address. I can't find any information on this, and that in itself is disturbing. Also frustrating is how I can't seem to find information on how to contact customer service either to inquire about this issue. I know I'm possibly going to get a few "If you don't like it, don't use it" 's, but if anyone can name an alternative service with similar functionality to skype, with similarly sized userbases, I'll gladly start giving my money to them instead.

Answer 1

henk wrote:
I'm not sure if this will work, but maybe you could try mpd
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Mu … yer_Daemon
and set it up like this
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Mu … pd_user.29
MPD has nothing to do with PulseAudio, it's just a music player. The tips and tricks to configure it so use another user's PulseAudio are also specific to it.
You have many options, one of them is to setup PulseAudio as a system-wide daemon. Or set it up as its own user and allow all users to share the PulseAudio instance.
But what I really think happens is that the X session is not reset properly when a user disconnects and the other one login again.
Try this first:
1- Switch to a console (Ctrl+ALT+F1)
2- Login as user A, and issue a "startx" to start X11. Play some music, use PulseAudio, open pavucontrol.
3- Logout from X11, and logout of that terminal.
4- Login as user B, and do the same as #2.
That will tell us many things about where it may cause problem. If it works that way, then you will need to reset X11 properties (I'll tell how). If it DOESN'T work, then the other server might still be running. Then run "ps aux | grep pulse" in a terminal to check if it's running.