 La LunaSurvived AshrafulPremium
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Re: yahoo chat and text locking up my email I don't see how this is a security issue?
Unless you think some malware is causing this?
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 NetFixerFreedom is NOT freePremium
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1 edit | said by La Luna:I don't see how this is a security issue? Unless you think some malware is causing this? edit: added more Some people consider Yahoo!'s addition of a non-optional feature to be the equivalent of malware. Especially so for a low bandwidth connection where the messenger connection attempts do indeed interfere with normal internet access.
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La LunaSurvived AshrafulPremium
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| said by NetFixer:said by La Luna:I don't see how this is a security issue? Unless you think some malware is causing this? edit: added more Some people consider Yahoo!'s addition of a non-optional feature to be the equivalent of malware. Especially so for a low bandwidth connection where the messenger connection attempts do indeed interfere with normal internet access. Yeah, that's why I added the "unless you think malware....blah blah".
I can't relate too much, I don't use web mail for anything other than a gmail account for garbage stuff. Oh, and a hotmail acct for MS stuff.
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said by La Luna:I don't see how this is a security issue? Well, when this feature was rolled out by yahoo, without any warning, I was greeted by a "Hey wanna chat?" popup from "pretty boy" or some such name. »Yahoo chat & mobile text
The feature wasn't only added, it was ENABLED by default.
However, as other yahoo users did NOT have this chat box, that really started to look ominous (Upon further investigation it was discovered that this was being rolled out slowly so not all users saw this for some time, and the version of the yahoo mail interface being used also was a factor.)
I simply couldn't know if my yahoo email account had been breached, if the yahoo page had been hacked or if some other malware on my system was causing chat popups to appear in yahoo. So I'd call that a security issue. |
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