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If you’re running YM9, Ad Banner remover for YM9 will let you run multiple YMs simultaneously as well as removing all the annoying ads!
There is a link to download the program at the below WackyB thread link.
Ad Banner Remover – for YM9 – WackyB.co.nz ~ Instant Messenger forum
Ad Banner Remover – for YM9Enable/Disable Multiple Instances of Yahoo Messenger 9
Remove the Main Messenger Ad
Remove/Replaced the Change Room Banner
Remove the Chat Room Ad
Remove/Replace Webcam Ads ( Replaced with about:blank )Note: This version of Ad Banner Remover is for Yahoo Messenger 9 only.
Also found
Ad Banner Remover ( Freeware ) – Page 2 – WackyB.co.nz ~ Instant Messenger forum
Ad Banner Remover
Version 5.2 – Will patch the main messenger ad in 7.5.0.333 to 8.1.0.402Download links for this version are also on that page.
__GHOST__MemberQuite often, people don’t choose to have yahoo websites hide their status of online or offline, and many people who go invisible in messenger, will show online in your email contacts address book.
However, I’ve known of many instances where Yahoo messenger and/or email address book has given false online and false offline statuses. One of the most common in my observation, is when someone logs out of messenger and their ID still remains online in the friends list for varying lengths of time after the person logged out, sometimes even several hours!
November 16, 2007 at 6:29 pm in reply to: Secretly add someone to your Contact List? Good or Bad? You tell us! #151468__GHOST__MemberWhen there have been working buddy adder programs available, none I’ve ever seen did anything except add them to your list. No passwords were revealed.
When I have tried a new buddy adder, I first try it between two of my own separate accounts on two different pcs on my own network, to make sure the adder words and doesn’t send the other person some kind of nasty message. I’ve seen a couple of adders that claimed to add a person anonymously, but when tested, actually sent the other person a booting threat message with your id on the message! So its always worth testing any buddy adder you try before relying on it.
Even the ones that sent a boot threat didn’t reveal any passwords or other information.
It’s also worth testing buddy deny programs before using them, to be sure that the program doesn’t send nasty messages to the person being denied.
Buddy adders and deniers are great too, for people who delete a friend whenever they get mad at the friend, and then want to readd the person when they get over their temper tantrum. I have a friend I would recommend usage of such a prog to, someone who is always deleting and readding according to their mood!
November 16, 2007 at 6:20 pm in reply to: Secretly add someone to your Contact List? Good or Bad? You tell us! #151467__GHOST__MemberThere are good reasons to be able to add someone without having to ask permission. One is when you’re reinstalling your pc and have to reinstall YM. Instead of bugging everyone when you reinstall YM, and if you have a long list, you don’t have to go through the task of trying to readd everybody and wait for them to get online to confirm, etc, you can restore your list right away when you can use a working buddy adder.
Another situation where an adder is useful is if you make a different account and want to add everyone on your friend list to the new account.
I personally often run one account on one pc and another account on another pc that is located in a different area of the house. That way I can talk to friends from one pc, and carry on the conversation in the other YM on the other pc while I’m working and have to go back and forth between the areas I’m working in.
With a large friend list, its very time consuming if you have to try to readd everybody whenever you reformat a HD or switch to a different Yahoo id. And some people get irritated at you when you keep having to readd them due to frequent reinstalling, etc.
__GHOST__MemberYou also should have folders for games, text, and logs, as well as Profiles folder, in your messenger folder.
your path should be C:Program FilesYahoo!MessengerProfiles
In the Profiles folder should be folders for your account that you’ve logged into YM on, while on that particular computer.
If it isn’t there, you might also use your Windows search to look for the Profiles folder.
In messenger itself, you can open the “Contacts” section, scroll down, and open the archive itself from there. It should come up with your archives.
__GHOST__MemberHere’s yahoo’s article on phishing, what it is, how to spot it, what to do if you suspect you’re a victim of phishing, and how to protect yourself.
Yahoo! Security Center: What is phishing?Yahoo security center’s homepage
Yahoo! Security Center: simple tips and solutions for computer security and online safetyThis is the page of the security center which explains the security sign-in seal. This seal recognizes the PC you use to sign in with, and if someone tries to sign in on any other pc, they will be unable to sign into your account even with correct name and pwd.
Yahoo! Security Center: What is a sign-in seal?When I logged into my yahoo email recently, it asked me if I wanted to create a security seal, so most likely you will see the same message when you log into your email again.
__GHOST__MemberThis is clearly a case of “phishing” using a fake login page! Once your friend logged into the fake yahoo page, a program sent your friend’s id and password to the owner of the fake page. Then all the hacker had to do was to change the password, log into her messenger, and your friend would have been kicked out of messenger and unable to log back into it.
All this probably took only a few minutes or less. Yahoo has added the sign-in security seal feature as one way to try to prevent people from losing accounts to phishing.
__GHOST__MemberI figure 90 percent of Yahoo’s “improving” is probably for such purposes as associating themselves with MSN messenger and to expose users to more advertising as well as trying to patch messenger to force people to have to see ads!
__GHOST__Member—Let them identify me. 😛 As long as they know whom is trying to help them improve Messenger. =)
Even better would be if they would show you some tangible monetary appreciation for your help!
After all, Yahoo sure needs help! For every step forward they take, it seems like they take 3 steps backward into errorland too!
__GHOST__MemberThe voice lagger problem has been around for as long as I can remember. It seems like Yahoo could find some kind of solution or workaround for that problem. Voice lagging/freezing is a problem that has existed with YM for YEARS!
The dumbest thing Yahoo ever did was to do away with Java chat protocol, which was the most secure protocol it ever has had.
November 16, 2007 at 5:31 pm in reply to: YTK Lite – Free Yahoo! Messenger Enhancement Addon #155940__GHOST__MemberI wonder if vendors who force C drive use think about those of us who partition our hard drives and try to keep as much as possible on drives other than C. That way, if C drive crashes or needs reformatted to get rid of some nasty malware, you don’t lose all your apps, you just have to reinstall windows and a few other major system apps.
Twice I’ve had malware sneak in that no antivirus caught.
The first one put some files on my C drive that masqueraded as critical system files and some of those files couldn’t be cleaned or deleted or removed in any way, except by reformatting and reinstalling C drive.
The wickedest one I’ve never seen mentioned on any antivirus site even almost a year after my experience. That particular malware DELETED all antivirus and antispyware app exe files. When I reinstalled spybot S&D and Norton antivirus, the malware instantly deleted the exe as it was installed. Online scans were impossible, the malware somehow prevented scans from running. I tested several different online scan sites and tried to download several different antivirus and antispyware/antimalware programs and no matter what I tried, this wicked bug deletetd all app exe files as quick as I tried to install them and blocked all scans. System restore wouldn’t work.
In the end, I had to reformat my C drive to get rid of this wicked virus. I emailed descriptions of this malware and its behavior to several AV and antispyware companies, but never got any response. I never saw anything that was like this particular virus before or since and I never have seen anything since then about a virus with this behavior.
Ever since that experience, I’ve kept as much as possible on other drives and tried to keep C drive to bare bones system files.
So there are very good reasons to want to install things on drives other than C!:cool:
February 25, 2007 at 7:14 am in reply to: Does the Profile says your online when you go invisible? #155168__GHOST__MemberThe simple way is to log into your actual account information page, then on the right hand side, below your ids, click the create/edit profiles link. That takes you to a page where you can choose the profile to edit. On that page, approximately a third of the way down, should be a place where you can put a checkmark into a box for the option to hide your online status for yahoo websites. You can also do this through messenger preferences, privacy, by checking the box to not allow yahoo websites to show when youre online. Otherwise, even if you’re invisible in messenger, you will show as online in other ppl’s email address books, etc.
February 25, 2007 at 4:52 am in reply to: Service that stores online/offline activity in previous 24 hours.. #157616__GHOST__MemberThat’s a cool idea, I’m sure that as ppl find out about its existence, there will be plenty of ppl who want to check to see if friends are lying to them, hiding invisible, etc. Just look in hackers lounge sometime, and you usually see numerous ppl going there to ask how to check ym, email, etc to see if someone is lying to them!
__GHOST__MemberMaybe the clock on their computer was set for that time and date. I know that if you set an incorrect time and date on the computer, emails you send via yahoo from that computer will show the computer’s time and date as the sent time and date.
__GHOST__Memberthere are some bots that will automatically greet ppl as they enter a room, but nothing as remarkable as IRC bots in yahoo yet. In IRC bots are so talented, they have functioned as room moderators for a long time there.
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