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July 31, 2004 at 6:25 pm #58633
Clown.Boy
MemberNick that dont matter, when certain people close there sites another person is right there just gettin into tha yahoo stuff and then they open a site and they stay for a few years then get bored then sum1 else repeats, thats how it will allways be, and I know that you knoe that too!
Im Done Here.
July 31, 2004 at 10:21 pm #58631EliteNick
MemberClown, you are correct. You don’t need to put
(Short for break to HTML newbies) though, the forum automatically adds the space if you space something lol.But yes, you are correct, booting, cracking, hacking, there will never be a way to completely stop this, although there are a lot of things that people can do to stop it that don’t. I don’t believe that it is worth the effort of sueing someone over booting you though. You would have to probably spend more money on the case than what you would win.
August 3, 2004 at 9:11 am #58634banana_hat
Memberer this is probably a rather silly question, Im not comp smart, sorry if its already been answered :S you guys are talking about shutting down sites, I hardly go into chatrooms just use PM, I have norton and it constantly tells me someone tried using some trojan program thinger to get into my compy, you probably know norton gives the IPs, and someones told me to report them, but does that really do anything seeing as how they can change their IPs, and how do I report them :S sorry if this is a question thats not allowed :S
August 3, 2004 at 3:09 pm #58578Oreo
MemberBanana hat….this is not really the right forum in which to post this. You may want to copy it, past it into the computer forum https://bigblueball.com/forums/forum.asp?FORUM_ID=54 Or even just run a search with the keywords about “trojans.” If you are not sure about what’s allowed and what’s not allowed, you should go to the main forum page and go to “Start here” look for the Forum rules and regulations. In general, if you are not spreading damaging information or links to sites with illegal or indecent, licentious content, you can post it. If you want help getting, or need help getting rid of something that has happened to you especially with IM…this is the site. You just need to find the correct forum. Hope this helps to clear a few things up and welcome to Big Blue Ball. 🙂
July 10, 2005 at 4:55 pm #58637kfinpgh
MemberI agree that booting chat users is illegal. Unfortunately, our law enforcement agencies have limited resources and can’t chase down these people. They change names, create new accounts or go into hiding for a while.
Reporting them to the chat providor has the same result. It’s too bad that some out there have to ruin chat for most of us.
July 15, 2005 at 2:13 am #58635Dermot
ParticipantYahoo! Booting, Cracking is a Yahoo! issue.
Computer Malicious Crime is not actually a crime until 5,000$ of damages has been done.
Police officers have more things to worry about then slapping some kids wrist for booting you out of a service yahoo! should have secured in the first place.
July 15, 2005 at 12:18 pm #58636miGs
MemberWell i guess this is something hard to avoid if not impossible as long as Yahoo! continue to play dumb with these long overdue problems.
They should focus more on security and not to adding new features that will only make their messenger an easy prey to the script kiddies.
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