Comments on: More reasons to fight spam (as if we needed more)

By: Lolla

Lolla — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 06:36:07 +0000

I have 4 yahoo ids…yes, I said 4…don’t ask?!?!
I only get IM spams on one of my accounts. This was the account that I used to communicate with my ex and right after we broke up the spams started pouring in on that very account, but not the other accounts that he was unaware of. I wonder if he was fishing for my yahoo password???? Any idea/s?

By: Bill

Bill — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 02:25:57 +0000

Daryl, Yup, I’m getting those a couple times a week. Makes me wish instead of ,or maybe in addition to, the ignore list Yahoo Messenger had a rule or wild card feature. Such as:

If senders name contains @live.cn then ignore
or
Ignore *@live.cn

By: j

Sat, 28 Mar 2009 00:36:05 +0000

You all just don’t get it, do you? Why would yahoo not get rid of spam? I wouldn’t be surprised that they may have a hand at causing them, or at the least get a cut of the money. It is all about the money. Even if the so called spam filter works, they might get so much cash that it pays for just about everything, if not more. All for distributing a so called free messenger. Please, YM has been round for many years. Don’t you think that the technology is there to end this kind of thing by now? But why stop it right,Y! Take the money and roll with it! For those silly enough to use your ridiculous program and all its security problems, i highly suggest finding something better and stop complaining.
More than likely, if the dollars roll in, they will not fix anything to your advantage.

By: Daryl

Daryl — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 19:08:26 +0000

I’m seeing a continuous flood of “add friend” requests coming from [x]@live.cn where x = [a-z,1-9]+ but usually some combination.that vaguely resembles yahoo (example: yah00.28@live.cn) .. Is anybody else seeing this? It is making the use of Yahoo Messenger incredibly annoying and they are never stopping the requests?

By: V

Fri, 18 Jan 2008 01:17:35 +0000

I would like to agree with Ne0, Yahoo! Chat doesnt have to be so complicated. You should make a similar program but that allows people to talk with the friends, webcam, and mic, functions. thats wat most people want

By: Ne0

Ne0 — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 04:32:41 +0000

Very good point. Yahoo! Messenger doesn’t have to be so complicated. All most people want is a place to talk with their friends, the ability to completely ignore a profile, and open chat rooms. In Messenger 7.0+, every time you go on Yahoo! Chat, you have to click on a link that opens a window that opens a tool bar in which a code must be typed in from a banner above. That is a huge setback for normal Yahoo! users. Then, the matter of spammers…Well, as it is most spammers are mindless script-run programs that type random jiberish in fonts that are hard-if not impossible- to read by just looking at it. A good and easy way to figure this out it by simply highlighting the text and right-clicking on it and v’ola! the jiberish is revealed. Some though, as mentioned before, are spams that promote/advertise porn. Even sometimes through the microphone/open-speech function
of Yahoo! Chat are they promoted. I hope that this problem can soon be resolved.

By: Mary

Mary — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 19:14:14 +0000

I’ve noticed that yahoo has a 100 ids limit for the ignore list. That sucks because i’ve already reached the limit and if i remove someone from the list to add another, i won’t solve anything because in one way or another .. one user will still annoy me. I hope the ignore id limit will be increased.

By: Brad

Brad — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 20:51:03 +0000

Yahoo just ignores spam reports. I challemnge yahoo to show us one case where it took legal or criminal action against a spammer in 2007.

Claiming that spammers are untouchable because they are in China, Russia or Romania is BULL.

I’ve been tracking one IM spammer for the last week. The spammer might be in China, but heis clearly working with US companies such as JTENT, Amateur match, and other porno companies in Las Vegas, Los Angeles, and Fresno.

Its always the same porno firms.

By: rick Miksell

rick Miksell — Sun, 02 Sep 2007 23:06:08 +0000

Every time I upgrade to msgr 8.0, I get a virus with some kind of foreign language. As I remember it is Quatangtrai.us.tf or something like that. I have to go back and restore.

By: ChiChi

ChiChi — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 09:24:10 +0000

one of the reasons i stoped useing yahoo messenger is the blocking feature just doesnt work nor does reporting people as spam seem to do anything