Are there any YIM spam bots (as in bots that will spam you're Yahoo messenger with PM's till it logs you off?) If so can you name a few, I have been hit by bots several times tonight that logged me off, and want to know whats up with it.
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Every Yahoo user has a profile. You can see yours at http://profiles.yahoo.com/your_user_name Go to profiles.yahoo.com/your_user_name Click Sign In and the top Login using the same username/password you use for the messenger Click View My Profiles at the top Click Edit next to your Yahoo ID (you probably only have one) Click Edit Profile Information on the next page On the bottom of the next page, CHECK Designate this profile as an ‘adult profile’ and UNCHECK Add this profile to the Yahoo Member Directory Click the Save Changes button below when finished Setting your profile as "adult" will require anyone who wants to see it (including bots) to physically log in to Yahoo first; a good spam-bot deterrent. Setting your profile not to appear in the Yahoo Member Directory will take your profile "off the radar", so to speak. Not my words, I just did the research. Taken from: http://www.pcmech.com/article/three-ways-to-stop-instant-messenger-spam/
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yes, my mother has the same problem with her yahoo messenger + msn msgr. it is a "virus" downloaded from a link that another infected account, who has you on friends list, sends to you. my mother was sent some pics, a common happening, from a friend,she opened a link, she got it, and her account logs in and out at will, even when she is not on, and sends the link to her contacts. she simply made a new one and even when she is on the new one the old one, her friends say, they see her logging in+ out and sending PM's, so far the new account has no problem and she will soon take the computer to be cleaned out.I recomend that if you do this, you make an external backup, save your files onto a large flash drive OR and external hard drive.
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