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March 2, 2011 at 7:32 am #33390bama boy1752Member
Plain and simple, I have been accused of having someone elses archive files sent to my computer. That’s the only way I know to explain it. I don’t have much to go on other this person saying they see a screen stating that some “raw” information is being sent to me, or my Messenger ID. I’m in IT, so it’s killing me to not have any idea about what’s going on. I need to prove my innocence so I need you guys to put your heads together and figure this one out for me. If I can get this person to even talk to me I’ll try to get more details for you. THANKS!!!
March 2, 2011 at 1:05 pm #177290Doris KenneyParticipantSounds like a load of crud to me. Probably someone trying to get you worked up on purpose.
Obviously, if they are smart enough to have a program showing “raw” data being sent to you – then they likely are smart enough to know how stop it. If you’d installed something on their machine, a good antivirus would be picking it up as malicious. If you were somehow eluding antivirus detection, a properly configured firewall would stop the outbound data to an unapproved IP, now wouldn’t it?
Each person is really responsible for their own security online. If they really believe it is happening then there are certainly plenty of forums where they can request assistance to figure out how to stop malicious activity from happening on their machine if they don’t know how to deal with it.
My only advise for you would be if there was any possibility that your Yahoo ID was hacked and is being used remotely by someone, then you might want to scan your computer to ensure it’s clean and then change your Yahoo password. If (and I stress if) your account were being accessed without your knowledge, this would probably take care of the problem.
March 2, 2011 at 2:28 pm #177292bama boy1752MemberDoris, I did a clean install of Windows 7 on this particular machine and what’s being said is that I have the folder – C:Program FilesYahoo!Messengerlogs – going to the public folder on said machine so that I can “spy” on the user from my computer.
March 2, 2011 at 3:09 pm #177291Doris KenneyParticipantFirst off, the user can certainly turn off archiving and that will completely remove any possibility. However, based on a quick search – your archives are NOT stored in the folder you listed. From what I find they are stored in %LocalAppData%VirtualStoreProgram FilesYahoo!Messenger. You can see that in this Yahoo Help Page.
In Windows 7 it’s a convoluted process to get to them via menus and they are certainly not in a nice simple public folder.
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