Bye Bye Yahoo Messenger…No Thanks To Your Spam
By Angsuman Chakraborty, Gaea News NetworkMonday, November 12, 2007
I am sick and tired of Yahoo Messenger Spam initiated primarily by Myfreecamhost and now joined by few new initiates too. Everyday, at the most inppropriate times I will get one or more messages from Yahoo Messenger asking me to watch some random female’s webcam on myfreecamhost for free (obviously scam). I was using Yahoo Messenger via Pidgin / Gaim. I have disabled Yahoo Messenger from my IM client till Yahoo fixes the issue. I have a feeling that Yahoo is benefiting financially from these spam. What do you think?
I am still on Google Talk, AIM & ICQ.
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May 21, 2010: 12:58 am
That’s a good decision to leave yahoo messenger rather than getting virus to our pc or being spammed by those. |
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August 15, 2008: 5:38 am
LoL, there is a small and simple setting to avoid getting any spam at all, go to Yahoo Messenger then go to Preferences, then go to Ignore list tab, then make sure you select “Ignore anyone who is not on Messenger List.” then apply and Ok. Then you won’t recieve anymore spam messages from weird bots. Hope that now you’ll be having fun again using Yahoo Messenger Have a nice day. |
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