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October 18, 2006 at 5:32 pm #25300OreoMember
A really strange thing happened today with messenger. But let me start out with Something not so strange (just extremely frustrating), I used to chat, and people would add me without my knowledge. As people are are forced to update to the new messenger, I notice odd people trying to add me to their lists.
One such person tried to add an old alias of mine today, so I did the typical: deny then ignore. So no big deal, I’m here at work and I had to leave my office. When I returned and signed in again…he had tried to add another alias from the same account and MY MAIN which I did not chat with…so what’s with that? I have not chatted in about 3 or 4 years…but the name that tried to add me was French and I went to the profile and did not recognize the person at all. In fact, the profile kind of weirded me out.
So how did he 1. Find my name and aliases (I am not even listed in the Yahoo! search…I made sure to do that when I created names and aliases) and 2. How was he allowed to continue to ask to add me when I had ignored him and his messages the first time?:mad:October 18, 2006 at 7:31 pm #153457niq6566MemberHey Oreo,
wow thats surely very annoying.
I dont know how it’s exactly done, but there are programs that allow to add a person without their knowledge, they can be downloaded on alot of webpages.
As to the ignore, its pretty much the same. There are programs too that “protect” ppl from getting ignored (plus the ignore function doesnt always work too well anyway, especially when its reaching the limit). I have ignored some persons about 1000 times and they still can send me messages or request my cam for some reason.
As to your first questions, how the person found your aliases and stuff, it is possible to get it through your IP address or with a proxy cracker. I dont really know how it works, but i asked a friend of mine about it and he could tell me my main ID and aliases within 10 min (very frustrating).
It doesnt sound to me like the person actually cracked your password too, but i would change it just to make sure.I’m sure there are alot of people in this forum who know a lot more about stuff like that than i do, they can probably answer your questions much better :P.
Anyway, good luck and i hope you can get rid of that person soon :).October 18, 2006 at 7:46 pm #153453OreoMemberThe thing is though…I have not chatted with anyone that I don’t know in oh…about four years and I generally used the chat rather than Messenger…and this is my work PC…and this PC did not exist that many years ago and i was not working here…it’s really odd.
October 18, 2006 at 11:45 pm #153455DermotParticipantIt could be the “unknown people coming on and off line bug”
i have had people pm me saying why i came online on their list when im not even on it.
and they just had to click the notice bottom right of their screen yto pm me when it popped up.
it could be sending that status to them from all your alises and not just main account.
they could have easily pmed you when it happened and try and add you, and everytime it happened, do the same thing.
October 19, 2006 at 12:08 am #153458mfenechMember@Dermot 209121 wrote:
It could be the “unknown people coming on and off line bug”
I’ve clicked a few interesting names that appear this way and have actually made a friend through it. I would have never met her on Yahoo otherwise. Chance encounters, ya know? 😉
October 19, 2006 at 12:55 pm #153454OreoMemberDermot;209121 wrote:It could be the “unknown people coming on and off line bug”i have had people pm me saying why i came online on their list when im not even on it.
and they just had to click the notice bottom right of their screen yto pm me when it popped up.
it could be sending that status to them from all your alises and not just main account.
they could have easily pmed you when it happened and try and add you, and everytime it happened, do the same thing.
That makes a lot of sense…they certainly sent me an odd one…if I still had the link to the profile I would send it…very odd indeed! Thanks for the help 🙂
October 21, 2006 at 11:11 pm #153459No-WayMemberSo you have people that tried to add your alias ID that never get into the chat room, FYI there’s a program that can see any ID that created on certain account without have to know the password. This program usually used by crackers to find out if the account had some ID that called “illegal” and worth to try to cracked. And as niq6566 mention, there’s many programs out there now that can add someone without having permission from the person who gat adding.
Usually what I do when this thing happen to me, I just report abuse the ID that tried to add my ID to Yahoo, and so far its works, the ID that tried to add me many times got deactived, and I never had the same problem since.
Hope this will solve you problem
October 23, 2006 at 12:49 am #153456DermotParticipantAlias checking programs use the Chat 2.0 (dhtml) chat protocol that gets removed November 1st
So that won’t function after that.
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