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

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

By: Karl

Karl — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 06:52:43 +0000

LOL people are not commenting as much now they know yahoo is full of empty promises and BS

I’ve found it useful reporting spam with Spamguard and the ignore feature, but ocassionally a bot will pm with a link. They seem to be less frequent new that I’ve been on yahoo for over 2 years now.

Umm spam has increased @ least 100 fold in the last year alone… go into chat and tell me its decreased lmao

as for yahoo 7.0+ yes i agree THEY ARE SUPOSED TO IMPROVE not get worse when you make a new version geez yahoo chat is not there priority has not been for a long time even in 8.0+ the chat button is in a dumb drop down menu what is verry anoying to use common sence would say its a needed function but no they do not care there servers are screwed the new alpha ones will be active properly in like 3 years (it is yahoo remeber) so i would not hold your breathe

By: Christine

Christine — Sat, 04 Aug 2007 04:10:41 +0000

As for the chatrooms I no longer have the desire to enter them. They have become places of constant fights and EXDTREMELY childish behaviour. I used to frequent the ON Broadway chatroom and immensely enjoyed myself when I first started handing out in the room, but the last 6 months or so of my stay in the room, It became less and less enjoyable when bots started invading the rooms and constant fights were going on in the rooms, every single time. The 18 and over restrictions on the room does not help matters at all, because the system is easily defeated when minors lie about their ages and create ids so they can pretend to be older than they actually are. I’m sure that’s where a lot of these fights are stemming from

And you really need to fix the bugs on versions 7.0 and highter, becauses when we have accept pms from people on our friends lists you can only see the friends you have on your lists, if they are in the room and not other people chatting who are not on your lists.

By: den

den — Fri, 03 Aug 2007 02:55:42 +0000

this functions a joke, because it does not reducespam in chat rooms. Spams grows and grows,,,,, I wonder why yahoo dont hear us,,,,they think this funtion will make you feel you are helping to block spammers……