Yahoo Messenger Sign-in Problems??

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1. Soon to be Gmailer on March 25th, 2009 9:53 pm

   Very DANGEROUS NEW CHAT FEATURE allows anyone to see your online status whether they are on your Approved Friends list or not.!!

   This new feature now lets ANYONE who has a Yahoo email account to monitor you while you are logged into the Chat Feature in your inbox. This is a huge and unfortunate change from the Stand Alone Separate Yahoo Messenger product. When using the stand alone product you had to approve people to be on your friends list before they could see if you were online or off. With the stand alone messenger you could also set individual preferences for each individual person on your friends list to control if they could see your online status or not.

   The new Inbox Chat & Mobile Text feature in your inbox now allows anyone access anytime to see if you are online when you change your status to online.

   We tested this scenario by setting up a BRAND NEW Yahoo email address and adding the email address of our present account into the new email accounts address/contacts list. It instantly showed the online status of the account that was logged in through the inbox feature. This is a very INTRUSIVE! The new email address had absolutely no connection to the existing yahoo email address just seconds before setting it up. The New email account was granted instant Friends status to our old address – simply by just adding the email address to the contact list.

   So if there is anyone out there that has problems with anyone one that may be a Cyber-Stalker or worse a Physical Stalker – I would AVOID Yahoo altogether. All the Stalker has to do is setup a new Yahoo Email account and add your email address to their contacts list and then they can see you anytime that you login to Yahoo and activate the Chat Feature. If you use the new Inbox Chat Feature as your source to Chat you will always be in danger of exposing yourself to anyone with a Yahoo address by simply logging in.

   If you use the Yahoo Mobile IM feature on your phone you are exposed showing you on your Mobile IM through this new feature as well.

   If you constantly have to show yourself as invisible to all just to insure that you are not exposed to the prying eyes of those you do not want to know your status – What is the point of the messenger service? Its original intent was to be a way to socialize with people in real time in the cyber world. If you are always invisible in IM you are not really using the IM service as it was originally intended, that was the whole reason for the Friends List and having to approve those people you wanted to include in your circle of trust.

   What a shame that Yahoo Messenger team did not think this problem through before implementing this feature site wide and as you can see from this blog post the comments are Mostly AGAINST this New Feature for a ton of different reasons. Why cant the Yahoo Messenger team get the hint that the users want to be allowed to get rid of this feature from their inbox if they so choose to do so, not just change the status to offline.

   Just a warning to Yahoo users everywhere – be aware you are now possibly being monitored whenever you are online.

   Yahoo give us our Classic Mail back and Keep us SAFE!!!!

   Be Careful fellow Yahooers,
   John

   Soon to be a Gmailer

2. Mohammad Athar on April 14th, 2009 2:28 pm

   sir/madam

   i am facing a problem in my yahoo messenger/mail for sign in.

   how i get rid off this problem. pls help.

   rgds

   athar

3. Mayooresan on April 14th, 2009 2:30 pm

   @Athar
   Why don’t you switch off your firewall and try?

   or

   Install trial version of Kaspersky and try.

   Problem is with Windows firewall

4. grace oliva on April 17th, 2009 4:08 pm

   prroblem in signing in to yahoo messenger

5. Mayooresan on April 18th, 2009 11:37 am

   @Grace
   Why don’t you switch off the firewall of windows and try out??

6. Mike on May 8th, 2009 9:02 pm

   Hi Mayooresan, I’m having the same problem now.. I’m using Kaspersky Internet security 2009… when i woke up, suddenly i cannot sign in to YM…

7. Mike on May 8th, 2009 9:03 pm

   sorry.. i’m refering to Mohammad Athar…

8. Ahmad on June 3rd, 2009 4:35 pm

   I am having the same problem with my Yahoo Account, i can login to my yahoo account through yahoomail.com but can’t loging to Yahoo Messenger. even i have removed my Anti Virus and turned my Firewall off, but not luck to get my yahoo messenger working.

9. Attia on July 19th, 2009 5:36 pm

   I’m having a problem in yahoo messenger signing in ,following clicking on signing in buttom a message of (system is busy Please try a little bit later)appears .this problem is applied on both Y versions (VER 9 & VER 8.421)
   By the way i uninstalled and reinstalled the Y.messenger program many times, and the problem still exists.

   How can i fix this problem ?

   Regards.

10. txt message on January 2nd, 2010 11:50 am

    I think if you have a catalog this could be a pretty good way to get some business. great tip, thanks for sharing.

11. aniketh on January 15th, 2010 1:00 am

    i have a problem regarding yahoo messenger.. it is stating that ‘your computer is not connected to the internet’. and showing me a trouble shoot option t odiagnose. but it has no effect.. plzz consider

12. keshab on April 12th, 2010 9:05 pm

    whenever i inter my email id in yahoo messenger, yahoo messenger will not accept my address. instead of enter in messenger is will pup up message try later. i tried several time but never able to enter. same time if i will browse inter it can be open and even browse the yahoo mail also.
    since 1 week i am facing this problem. please help out. i appreciate if u can give me some solution today itself.

    thanks and best regards

    keshab k shrestha

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