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Hey there.. I’ve got a bit of a strange occurance I’d like to point out to the forum.. I’ll do my best to explain it, although my being half technically literate and half not might make it a bit garbled.. but maybe someone will have encountered the same problems as I have.
In the chat, on Messenger, I’ll type something, and occassionally, as soon as I send the message to the chat room, I get the error message “You have been logged off chat, etc…”. Usually after that I can still chat with folks in PM.. but should I log out, I can’t sign back into my name for a few hours at least. I can sign into anything on the Yahoo site just fine… just not Messenger.
Also, in an unrelated issue, sometimes while I’m online, I’ll get PMs from these bots, they always have complete garbage names, colorful fonts, and there’s always an underscore… wish I had an example, but I can’t currently log into my Yahoo SN. Anyways, these bots are annoying, but I recently noticed more than that. They’ve been being logged in on my computer! Like, when I got a profile or something, the bot SNs will be logged in on the Yahoo site. I usually just log them out and go about my business.. but it’s a bit unnerving..
Anyways, to tie this all together. Tonight, the former problem happened to me in chat.. and in going to the Yahoo site to make sure my SN would still log into the site… the latter problem occurred as well! So.. I pulled up the command prompt, ran netstat, and found nothing… I waited a few minutes, however, and found…….. a connection on a port to a Yahoo chat server! Now… I’m not really well versed on bots, Trojans, and TCP.. but it seems to me as an automated program is using my computer as a host while it chats as a bot.. am I way off base with this?
Also.. of note.. this “foreign address” (as netstat calls it) had a port or two open at the time….
a166-90-148-230.deploy.akamaitechnologies.com
Not sure about all that… but the word “deploy” makes me think it isn’t something I want to be there… not to mention the fact that all programs were closed at the time….
Anyways, any help would be appriciated, thanks for the time…
– Jason
Also of note… I could log in about right after this message (it’d been around an hour)…. and running netstat again, I noticed port 1381 no longer was occupied as it was before.. just thought that might help some of you computer wizards out there…
Well for about 3 months now I have been getting booted off chat and my i.d has been getting locked up.. at first I thought it was a booter ,then I thought it was yahoo, now I have no idea , I have reformatted my comp, done it all , dont suggest any cleaning of files I have also done that , I have contacted yahoo and they say they are aware of the prob.. here is how it all goes down, I log on, I go to my room ,I chat for myabe a maximum of ten minutes ,then it says, “you have been logged out of chat please re join the room to continue chatting.” most of the time it does not punt me right off messenger, but when it does I get a small box that appears saying session expired,and then my id is locked for anywhere between 12 and 24 hours, also my name is only locked in msnger not java.. its just too damn bad I cant see any of the chatters list in java or I wouuldnt care, as we all know yahoo messy blows for service anyway.. feel free to add your comments and suggestions, im willing to try almost anything and if your id gets banned for posting addys whats the point of yahoo giving you the space on your profile to do it … well maybe im just all bent cuz I can’t chat?!! I know I posted this elsewhere please forgive me.. but hey its happening to many many people and me as well.. who the hell knows.. and hey I cant get no answers either:mad:
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