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November 6, 2004 at 7:46 am #14576phil_jorgensonMember
ive been playing at a yahoo game sight………and there are a few players that have been booting other players from a game table by flooding them with grey box IM’s.
is there a way to stop this???
November 6, 2004 at 8:16 am #104091rafaelemtMemberYou can download YTunnelPro. It’s a very good program against such attacks.
Rafael
November 6, 2004 at 6:24 pm #104092mdandeMemberumm ytunnel wont stop that kinda game room boot. what you need to do phil is turn your pm’s off in the game room and also turn off your invites.. I had this happen to me yesterday. it was a poor sport he did it when I was about to pocket the 8 ball in pool
November 7, 2004 at 4:26 pm #104098lalazsanityMemberDoes anyone know how to contact at Yahoo to permenately stop hackers and booters? I don’t go into chat rooms, I do however play spades and each and everytime I get attacked by booters or hackers I have had virus’s the last booter had 13 id’s that he used to cheat and boot me with mass im’s here is the list for all to beware of playing with healing_garden_02/healing_garden_38/carnal_sinner_02/carnal_sinner_09/carnal_sinner_11/outonyourass/outonyourass7/gotspades20032003/ph_fuk_i_am_set/boost_r_us/sadie87821061/matts_an_asshole/kirssy_is_all_mine/y_r_all_women_l3itches/bid_dady27/ I looked up his game history and he sits in rooms with two other clones and boots some poor idiot to get a win! what do I have to do to get yahoo to take some action here? I am seriously thinking of starting a antiyahoo site I am so frustrated all you ever get from them is a auto response I have their phone number for the headquarters in California. Just looking for somebody to tell me who to talk to to get yahoo to enforce their own policies!:(
November 7, 2004 at 5:00 pm #104093kron_19792000MemberLike they say you get what you pay for. There is no way of totally stopping booters/hackers every program is man made they will always have bugs and there will always be people who are frustrated and will do things in the cyber world which they would never dare to do in the real world sorry to tell you but it can not be helped
November 7, 2004 at 10:09 pm #104095BuddhaSmileMemberlalaz, have you put those names on ignore? Kron is correct, there is no way to stop all of the booters, but there are things you can do to help reduce the likelihood of being booted. Put the people who have booted you on ignore, disable PMs and turn off invites.
Yahoo does not offer telephone support for its free services, so if you are thinking of calling, I can tell you from experience you will probably be on hold a long time only to be told to check the help pages. They get 1.5 million pieces of e-mail a month, so one can understand their reasons for using an autoresponse.
November 8, 2004 at 3:31 am #104099lalazsanityMemberI wanted to say Thank You to however suggested disabling all invites and conversations inside of the games this worked again today I was in a room and my screen blinked and blinked but didn’t get booted! lol I realise it is a lost cause I am just shocked that yahoo (who is desperatly trying to playwith the big boys) overlooks and allows hackers free access to their consumer base it’s almost as if they round you up offer free games and entertainment and the say here ya go boys! all in one place (you have to disable firewalls at least partially to get yahoo) hopefully somebody does do something proactive against yahoo lmao(maybe a mass class action suit for time and aggravation!) I have thought about setting up a site to allow people that have recieved no response or help from yahoo to email their sponsos and let them know they are switching sites do to yahoo being a unsafe browsing site! yahoo may not listen to individuals but they have to listen to their advertisers! gonna think on that somemore! thanks for the help though! anybody with anymore thoughts on how to force some action out of yahoo let me know.
November 8, 2004 at 3:38 am #104094kron_19792000MemberActually yahoo is not a bad site. They do fix bugs quiet fast now a days. But then there are just some things you can not change and I do not think yahoo make you any more vunerable than any other site.
November 8, 2004 at 10:06 pm #104097phil_jorgensonMemberhey guys and gals ty for the responses…………one question……….what are PM’s that im supposed to disable?
i know what IM’s are……..but not PM’s
November 9, 2004 at 4:25 am #104096BuddhaSmileMemberPMs = Private Messages, that is what IMs were originally called
November 9, 2004 at 4:45 am #104090Jeff HesterKeymasterFYI if you are using tunnel 2.0 you can also manually add an ID:
EG : Y ou are being booted by – carnal_sinner_02/carnal_sinner_09/carnal_sinner_11 etc, then open tunnel super Iggy bin and add the name carnal_sinner and check the box ” block all names beginning with ” that will add the wildcard entry to you bin just make sure you have no friends with that name or you wont see them anyway ..you can do this with any name.
July 29, 2012 at 6:12 am #104101MarshallMemberLOL OK LET ME CLEAR SOMETHING UP HERE Y TUNNEL WILL HAVE NO AFFECT WHAT SO EVER AGAINST THE FAME ROOM BOOTER’S I KNOW THIS FOR A FACT BECAUSE I AM THE CREATOR AN CODER OF YAHOO GAME OWNER AKA YGO THERE IS NOTHING U CAN DO TO STOP THE BOOT THE ONLY THING THAT CAN SAVE U IS TO HAVE A FASTER INTERNET AN MORE RAM MEMORY THEN THE PERSON RUNNING THE PROGRAM an as far as yahoo stopping us they wont its a public domain site they cant even press charges if they wanted so there hands are tied while we have fun pissing everyone off normally i don’t respond to these post but i did this time just because have fun cause i know i am
August 28, 2012 at 8:08 pm #104100DermotParticipantNo need to shout, anyways yahoo has always had the last say on what works and doesn’t work on yahoo, that includes booters or any other applications that get some breathing time in the public.
Memory or fast internet will do nothing to stop any booting, anybody who thinks otherwise doesn’t understand what serverside means.
Yahoo servers have transfer rules and if a data stream becomes too high the server will release the client (you) when they should be releasing the (sender) them, but they have multiple connections so you get “booted/Released” from your connection to yahoo chat.
This has happened for years and these kids will always mess about with it, but there are always methods to thwart such action as no matter how smart these kids booting think they are, there is always people smarter then them, the evolutions of many anti booting methods over the years confirms this.
Y! Tunnel is also a discontinued software so you should “not” expect it to be compatible with latest yahoo changes.
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