Boot program

Okay, not all boot programs use PM bombs. Some send you a mass amount of chat invitations, web cam invitations/requests, and add buddy requests. Also, most people who use booters use what are called bots, and they make several of them so you won’t be able to ignore them all. After just a few seconds of being barraged by messages and above mention requests/invites, you get disconnected from the server due to a buffer overflow issue in the YIM. So, if you ignore the booter, they still have several bots that are under there control that they can use to boot you. There are 3rd party chat clients that deal with those kinds of attacks, so if they get to bothering you too much, don’t make a big deal of it in a room (that way the booter just gets to have fun) and just go d/l a third party chat client. I hope this helps.

Some bootcodes actually affect the server and not the client. This means they fool the server into disconnecting you, it doesn’t matter what chat client you use, these types of bootcodes will always work and you cannot protect yourself.

I doubt it’s a server boot that was used on sashaa due to the fact that he/she mentioned that they got several invites to be added to a buddy list. Like my previous post on this topic, there are several ways that people try to boot you, and that’s one of them. For one, yahelite doesn’t handle all boots too well, there is a way to make yourself boot proof, but it takes a bit of configuring. As far as third party chat clients are concerned, I would suggest using YmLite, it seems to be able to handle all those “booters” pretty well. You can’t recieve invites to anything using YmLite (if you log on under DHTML and YCHT) and you can set it so that only 1 pm window can be opened within a certain amount of time. If you want a tutorial on setting up YmLite, please refer to this post https://bigblueball.com/forums/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=517&whichpage=2 (fourth one from the bottom) on a quick tutorial on how to set up YmLite to be as boot proof as you can.

As a side note, you’ll rarely ever run into anyone who knows how to use the server boots, so those aren’t much of a problem. At least, I’ve never run into them, and I go out of my way to look for booters. ^_^

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