Click on the AdBlock in the lower right corner. A box named AdBlock-able Items should open. Then towards the bottom you will see New Filter (use * as wild):

To remove the ad in the pool room ( where the lobby is ) enter this into the New Filter.

[HTML]*http://games.yahoo.com/ygames/home/supernorthroomad.php?[/HTML]

Then to remove the ad from the table enter this into the New Filter

[HTML]*http://games.yahoo.com/ygames/home/tableadnorth.php?[/HTML]

The two entries above will completely remove the frame the Ad is in.

You have to understand how the messenger works. Just about every thing you
do with the messenger the Yahoo Server is always the next step in the process.
When you send a pm the data is sent and the Yahoo Server gathers that data.
Next the Yahoo Server parses the data, create a new packet and sends it to
the person you sent the pm to. The same applys to the Go To User function.
You select one of your usernames ( if you have more then one ) then type the
name of the person you wish to go to in the same chat room. Once the data
is sent the Yahoo Server then gets it, parses the data, check if the user is
actually in a chat room and then one of two things happen. One you are taken
to the chat room the user is in or two you are told the user is not in
any chat rooms. Now the thing that has happened is simple. Yahoo programed
the Yahoo Server to ingore the data for the Go to User function. So more
then likely it wouldn’t matter what version of messenger you are using. The
data is always going to be ignored from the Go to User function.

Yes that might work, however it would have to be on a large scale.
Meaing unless a lot of people complain there will be nothing done.

Also say they did get fed up, more then likely one of two things will
happen. One: they don’t allow any new names to be created more a
short term fix or Two: they remove the chat rooms completely.

Would be nice not to have a room full of bots, but there will always
be people that are going to make them.

You people should be complaining about the bots in chat, not just a stupid goto feature.

Complaining about either will do you no good. Yahoo believes the Go To User
as a privacy issue, so you won’t be seeing that anymore. As for complaining
about the bots in Yahoo Chat, well, would also be pointless. Someone with no
knownledge of making bot could make at least 20 to 50 bots an hour. As for
the more advanced user, they could make over 400 bots in an hour. Mind you
that’s only the amount one user could make. So say 1000 user that had fair
knownledge on creating bots all made bots for an hour, they would have
almost 400,000 bots that could be used to enter chat rooms. Now I am sure
that more then a 1000 people on the internet make bots. Maybe not as many
as 400 an hour but still the fact remains that Yahoo would have to stop allowing
people to make new names, go threw all of the current usernames that are
already made to see which ones could be bots and which ones are actual users.
Even if Yahoo did so it would take time to do it, and at some point they would
have to alllow people to create new usernames again thus meaning people
could then again start to make bot names again and the cycle start all over again.

First thing you could try is to uninstall Yahoo Messenger. Then download the
full setup. Don’t download the installer from the messenger home page, it might
be a smaller download but the installer sometimes does not download all the files
needed. Also it always installs the needless extra like the Yahoo Toolbar.

This is why I always download the full setup. It has all of the files so there
so it can’t forget to download one. Also it does not install any extra’s like
the Yahoo Toolbar, ect.

http://download.yahoo.com/dl/msgr8/us/ymsgr800_711_us.exe

You will be able to tell the difference between Yahoo’s new installer and the
full setup.

New installer: http://us.dl1.yimg.com/download.yahoo.com/dl/msgr8/us/msgr8us.exe

Full Setup: http://download.yahoo.com/dl/msgr8/us/ymsgr800_711_us.exe

You will notice that the full setup will always inclued the build number and the
new installer doesn’t.

Also make sure if you are using an older version/build that you uninstall the
current version of messenger that is already installed on the computer.

The problem with that is it would almost be the same thing as posting the program.
I think that it could be concidered the very reason this topic was made.
Not being sure if the program should be allowed to be posted or not.
I myself looked for the way to add someone without them knowing. Never
found anything, so instead of waiting for someone else do it I found the
answer myself by trail and error. What would be the point in giving you the
answer ? You won’t learn anything if someone else always gives you the answer.
Hell I have known how to add people without them knowing since June.
Myself I find no reason to post a program nor the source code.
Get an add request packet see how it works and create your own method.
I didn’t make my own method to add people without them knowing.
I did it to challenge myself, and to learn more and to see if it could actually
be done or not. Don’t get me wrong I am not being mean or anything. It’s
better for some to get a push in the right direction then to be given the answer.

More or less adding someone without them knowing is not a hack. The information
is already there. It’s the same information that is sent when you would
normally add someone except for the information is changed a little.
Think about it, if someone made a program that uses the same method
that Yahoo Messenger uses to report spam bots something that could be
concidered a good things as you could report multiple bot names instead of
just one at a time. However you will always have “someone” that would use
it in manner that would not be concidered good.

In the end Yahoo might patch things just like the P2P packets, boot packets
used by boot programs, ect. But at someone point someone, some time or
another will find away or a new way of making it work. Yahoo patches boot
packets all the time, yet there are still boot programs out there, and people
are still getting booted. This will always be true with any exploit or whatever
you wish to call it.

I don’t see what the big deal is about really, I could care less is someone
adds me without me knowing. All they can do is see if I am online or not and
see my status message if I actully even put one up. Thats just my opinion
as you have seen others that would hate the fact that someone could add
then without them knowing, whatever there reasons are. I know I kinda
repeated some of the things I already said, so sorry in advance. lol

Oh and richter I mentioned the hacker thing simply so people would
know that they weren’t being hacked. You may have known but not eveyone
does. It was more for their benifit, as said before, your opinion is welcome.

Its not happening with my Yahoo Messenger 8.0, everything is working ok for me.

Change “Messenger Ad”=”http://noads.html”

To

“Messenger Ad”=”*”

Exit Yahoo Messenger, reopen and the banner should be gone.

If you keep it to http://noads.html the ad will be blank but still there.

Chat rooms loaded, sms works, and no icons are missing that i can see.

This only applys to Shadowdeath’s patch.