Foot-printing is an art of gathering minute details of the target like IP, OS, Software installed, Security Systems, Location, Owners, Emails, Personal data etc. A hacker gathers all the details needed to break into the system. There are numerous ways to do this and also various tools and tricks available for this. Lets discuss some of them so that we can have some idea of what foot-printing is. Foot-printing can be categorized into two types on the basis of access mode. a) Active Mode b) Passive Mode a) In Active Mode , the attacker makes actual contact with the target system. The active method includes process such as email tracking, website mirror, server confirmation. Email Track : Examine email path from where is email coming, the IP, the path it took. Tools like Email Tracker Pro (Link at bottom) provide such details. these details are used to trace the fake mail's source IP's, location and path. For this tracking, the email he