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tj444 -> RE: There are several things that suck about being online.... (5/26/2011 10:59:05 PM)
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There are 4 different Yahoo messengers, one is the software you download onto your computer, its stand alone and the best imo, because you can set it to not accept messages from anyone that is not on your list. There is the msgr for mobile cells, there is messenger for the web which is seperate from your email and the last one is messenger that appears in your email. I have not tried the new yahoo email so it may be different but the messenger that is in the email seems to allow people to send messages regardless, my yahoo wont let me block them, that feature is disabled for some reason. [:@] If you go to other features and i think its under the spam section, there is a place to block people on messenger, yours might work. But if you are using yahoo 9, then it might be in a different spot or maybe they do it differently.
Also, when you signed up yahoo asked a bunch of personal questions, that created your profile and there is another section you have to access to make that info private. That is probably how they know stuff about you.
Then there is also a section where you can set it so yahoo doesnt sell your info to others for advertising purposes, that could also be a source of these messages you are getting.
Its like you have to go thru each section and link in yahoo to find out what you have agreed to and what info is public without you being aware of it. [:@]
Also, if you are hacked and find out someone has used your address book to email to your contacts then change your password to something very hard to break. Mix Caps with lower case, add in numbers, make it hard for them.
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