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Yahoo Messenger is it safe? email this discussion to a friend?

dirtydoug (41)   ranked 4,161 out of 11,188 in internet3 months ago

Hi i am using yahoo messenger since i was 12. You can use your email to log on to your yahoo messenger, but is it alright to use your personal email, is it safe? Heres my story. My personal email and the one im using in yahoo messenger is just the same, but i found out that there is someone or a bot is using my yahoo messenger to spread out there website or spam something, so in my case as untechie i am really so worried because if that bot or that man can use up my yahoo messenger maybe he can open my email too which has lots of information thats why i decided to open up a new email account which is i am not gonna use it again on yahoo messenger. I am really not sure about this but we really have to be very becareful this is internet and on internet everything is possible. Have you experience this thing lately? someones using your messenger for spamming, wow this is ridiculous, can someone expain to me or atleast tell me if its really safe to use your own email on yahoo messenger as you can see i really dont know this things thats why i am so careful about it.

 
 
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1. myLot reputation of 94/100. jammyt (2106)   ranked 7,913 out of 11,188 in internet   3 months ago

I think it's either you were not able to log out from the messenger that's why other people had access to it, OR, your email was simply hacked. My techie friend would advise for you to change your password first. If it still spreads spam messages, I guess start thinking of having a new email address soon. In the meantime, make sure that when you use messenger, you log out completely and tell your friends to monitor it as well. happy

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2. myLot reputation of 77/100. megaman2000ph (317)   ranked 4,731 out of 11,188 in internet   3 months ago

Me I have experienced this also, I notice that many chat rooms have an adult directory. When you enter on that room, someone will say "high do want 2 see me on cam"? when you replied to them they would invite or use your user name to attract other users. Even if you logged in on another day your inbox is full of adult ladies inviting you to their websites. From that day I usually don't use the messenger but I use paltalk.

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3. myLot reputation of 63/100. hichamov (396)   ranked 1,157 out of 11,188 in internet   3 months ago

hello
yahoo have a lot of Bugs and they do them bests to stop the spam bots, unfortunely yahoo is a great service at everything and i like it a lot, i use it also since i had 14 years old and my yahoo mail still working, the thing is that You have to change your password every 1 month, like that you are safe;)

Your email used to spam is not a new thing, because the spamers use a lot of emails which they can find easily with google and msn search engines, they use a randome emails to send them stuffs through a Mass mailers and so.

just do what i told you, change your password, do some restrection and privacy at your account oiption and all will be fine;)

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4. myLot reputation of 46/100. godpower1k1 (417)   ranked 2,660 out of 11,188 in internet   3 months ago

all messenger's are safe ... but MSN messenger is most safer than these all ...

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