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THANK YOU FOR THE SOUNDS!
I had only managed to find the “chimeup” from searching online.
The new ones were too minimalistic… They almost sounded like someone at Yahoo thought “I really dont’ want to be bothered by my IM program, we’ll make the sounds smaller, less obtrusive, and very very quiet sounding”
No. It’s because when you remove the messenger list ad, it breaks the Launchcast music status. I think instead of a patch, we’re going to have use a loader or something of that nature unless I or somebody else finds an alternative way to blocks the ads without breaking Launchcast music statuses.
I did test the latest Y!Tunnel beta with 701, and found it accually still can block the ad, without breaking the music status. I just gotta find what Y!Tunnel does to block the ad.
Well, we don’t all use LaunchCast (and I don’t myself, ever since Yahoo released BS versions of it for each country). Could one of you create a patch “until” you come up with another solution.. especially for those who don’t give a rats ass about LaunchCast? 🙂
Very well…
Yahoo! Messenger v8.0.0.701 Messenger Ad Hack
Features:
– Removes the ad off of the main messenger list.NOTE: Using this will disable the Launchcast music status.
Instructions:
1. Make sure Yahoo! Messenger is fully closed.
2. Extract this .rar file to C:Program FilesYahoo!Messenger (or whatever your default Yahoo directory is) and override the existing YahooMessenger.exe file (Please, make a backup of it first).
3. Restart Yahoo! Messenger and verify that the ad is gone.Download:
http://rapidshare.de/files/29318786/YahooMessenger800701.rar.html
If there is any bugs, please report them! You can use this with Dermot’s Ad Destory for total removal.
Have fun! 😉
The key word “enable” in YahooMessenger.exe at hex 3981AC is used at 5 places to turn on at least 5 switches. I disassembled the exe and found “push 007981AC” at 5 different addresses, the one at hex 1C09E is the one we need, I changed it from “push 007981AC” to “push 007981AD” to block this subroutine from recognising the key “enable”, in binary it means changing at hex 1C09E from 68AC817900 to 68AD817900. What I get from this hack is:
– main window ad is gone
– no option in References/privacy to turn off “Change my status automatically when I am listening to…”
– main window can’t display the headphone icon but the Launchcast text part of the status is there.
– Launchcast status line shown normal in pulldown status.
– Plug-in list is correctly shown in Plug-ins Manager.
– my friends see my Launchcast status change.
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– no country selection in Preferences/Connection.Yes, people who wrote YahooMessenger would say yes but I have no courage to read 1.8 millions lines of the listing. It is to find where the exe gets the headphone icon from res_msgr.dll
I found the way to remove the main window ad and still have status, Preferences/privacy, plug-in manager list:
– use this hacked url.xml (read only):
– Hex edit 701 YahooMessenger.exe, at hex 3E647:
replace 8B F1 8D 4D DC AB 8D 46 04 51 FF 30 89 45 EC
with AB 8D 45 EC 8B F1 50 FF 76 04 90 90 90 90 90my new hacked exe is here:
http://rapidshare.de/files/29384553/YahooMessenger.zip.htmlYou dont even have to change much on the 398196 (line # depends on resolution of hex editor)
just change the “enable” to “Enable” and as its case sensitive will kill kill the function and ad will be gone but clickable status will be disabled.
like below..
change to…
And hey presto after you save the change, the ad will not show up again.
I have updated Ad Destroy 2.5 to have a YahooMessenger.exe in its folder and take that and replace the exe in the Yahoo! Messenger folder.
This meaning if they change the ad again in the next build you or anybody who hex’s the ad on the new one can put the new hexed “YahooMessenger.exe” in the Ad Destroy folder and it will use that when running.
Since the YahooMessenger.exe is like 4mb its a big enough download.
i’ve zipped it and Ad Destroy 2.5 together.
get it here
Lemme know how that works for you!
w00t! Thanks aneagle!!! It works. It blocks the ad without breaking the music status. Thanks alot man! 🙂
I uninstalled and re-installed Y!M, simply replaced YahooMessenger.exe and don’t care about the urls.xml. My last hacked version doesn’t affect other features.
So, you don’t need to bother with urls.xml? Man, that’s really good work. 🙂 Question, how did you come upon that solution?
I did it the lazy way, disassemble both versions using W32DSM89, compare the listings, make a guess for where they changed the code to force Y!M downloading client_ad and displaying, I was really lucky at the 1st move, just put some codes back as it was in 683. I almost go back to using the 683 but I don’t like the way it shows my name instead of my ID on the pulldown status.
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