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newest version of Yahoo Messenger changes a user's mail preferences

Brinke Guthrie [PersonRank 10]

Saturday, December 16, 2006
17 years ago4,068 views

Yahoo's IM update: A Trojan horse of surprises
12 / 15 / 06 |

Yahoo said late Friday that it has fixed a bug in its newest version of Yahoo Messenger that changed a user's mail preferences without his or her consent.
But the company has stopped prompting customers to update the software until it can sufficiently test that the fix works, said Yahoo spokeswoman Terrell Karlsten.

"We're testing the fix until we can get it behaving the way we want it to behave," she said.

Yahoo Messenger 8.1, when it was released Friday, automatically installed a Yahoo Mail icon in a user's system tray and changed the user's default mail settings to Yahoo Mail, said Karlsten.

Yahoo had alerted 73 million users worldwide (or all those using its IM service before November 2) to download the latest software version, which includes free or low-cost PC-to-PC calls among its chat features.

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Philipp Lenssen [PersonRank 10]

17 years ago #

Got the source/ link?

Brinke Guthrie [PersonRank 10]

17 years ago #

http://news.zdnet.com/2102-9588_22-6144286.html

Syed nadeem [PersonRank 0]

17 years ago #

i want yahoo messanger without installtion

Sohil [PersonRank 10]

17 years ago #

Syed,

http://www.meebo.com

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