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« on: May 02, 2012, 09:37:01 AM »

is there a way spam bot can use ym to chat you to going to a link ?

what possible vulnerabilities does it need to have or rather path they can go?

actually just got a very funy chat with one

ok i know im not making sense or not conveying what i want to say
since my brain is still laughing with the chat session with it so maybe ill continue tomorrow in completeting the details
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« Reply #1 on: May 02, 2012, 10:33:21 AM »

is there a way spam bot can use ym to chat you to going to a link ?

what possible vulnerabilities does it need to have or rather path they can go?

actually just got a very funy chat with one

ok i know im not making sense or not conveying what i want to say
since my brain is still laughing with the chat session with it so maybe ill continue tomorrow in completeting the details

Yes it can. It's not just yahoo messenger I had the same with MSN chat. I don't know how and why but yes it can get hacked into.
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« Reply #2 on: May 03, 2012, 05:33:41 AM »

looks like i allowerd something accidentally my bad

its probably tried to connect on the time i was rushing to allow a game to connect so far no same incident

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