Apparently there is a bug in the Mac version of Yahoo! Messenger. Display images are currently not displaying, or not setting correctly. A response from the Yahoo! team is posted below.
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A group of russian hackers/crackers have released a new way to crack the captcha that Yahoo! uses in everything, chat, mail, registration. So everyone get ready to see a large surge of porn bots in the chat rooms. Yahoo! why not use the spam filter idea I talked about previously? You guys must have the resources to put it in place. Granted the captcha method did reduce the number of bots, but it certainly didn’t solve the problem like they had stated or we all hoped for.
Yesterday it appears that many users were having problems logging into the Yahoo! Messenger program. Yahoo! Messenger representatives suggested you use the web messenger, as it was not experiencing any problems. Today an update has been issued from Sarah Bacon on the Yahoo! Messenger Blog suggesting that the sign-in problem has now been fixed.
Microsoft just released a beta of the new service pack 3 for the Windows XP OS. There are some people are having issues running the 8.1 version of Yahoo! Messenger.
Some reports are saying that it will freeze after only 30 minutes of use. After sending feedback to Yahoo!, a response saying that the version of Yahoo! Messenger was not installed properly, and you are advised to simply do a re-install of the product. The only problem being that the same issues will continue to happen even after a fresh install of Yahoo! Messenger. Perhaps the beta version of messenger will fair better with the new service pack.
The Yahoo Messenger team has cranked out an update of the new yahoo messenger 9 beta. This release fixes some bugs, I have included a list found on their blog detailing the bug fixes. Visit the Yahoo! Messenger 9 website to download the latest and greatest beta.
It has come to my attention that there is a new Yahoo! Chat exploit in the wild, this exploit consists of injecting YMSG protocol bits into the location section of a yahoo profile.There are a few variations currently circulating, one which would add an aditional name to the room, and another that would remove the chat text completely.
Yahoo! has been notified, and I would expect a patch soon (within 72 hours)
There was apparently a mishap with the folks over at Yahoo! and our status messages were only allowed to have 40 characters. They are currently fixing the problem and we will have the full 250 characters back shortly.
Yesterday the good folks over at Yahoo! have finally implimented changes in the overwhelming bot presence in chat rooms. They have introducted a captcha system to allow users into the room.
Here is an excerpt from the Yahoo! Messenger Blog,
The Yahoo messenger team has rolled out some bug fixes for the chat problems, and information disclosure bug. Although to some extent, I think it was more relevant showing registration info than profile info, but that’s just me. Read below for the official word from Yahoo, courtesy of Sarah Bacon.
Over the past year, Yahoo! has come under some serious fire for letting their chat rooms go to hell. The public chat rooms are now rampant with bots. I challenge you to enter a chat room and not find a single bot.
In hopes to combat this very serious problem Yahoo! has been working on their backend. They recently installed some patches and fixes for the join room times. These fixes for the most part wen’t well. Joining a chatroom is now quicker than ever but now you can’t really enter the room you want to enter, you get bumped to another available room in the same category.
This certainly puts a damper on your chat experience especially if you are like me and visit a single room and generally stay in that room. Yahoo! is working on a fix and is still working on more updates regarding the bot problem.
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