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by jay

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please help me get rid on my network forever yahoo messenger.

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by raydaniels

Do you have Yahoo messanger installed on your computer? If so go to control panel/add remove programs and unistall it.Try providing more info.like what network are you using.Is this a popup that your receiving.Also yahoo can be configured to start manually that way it only runs when you want it to.If you need help doing any of this just E-mail me and I'll be glad to walk you through it.

by jay

sorry i can't uninstall it because its on a network with different PC's, thank you very much for your responce, but the one i am looking is to block it permanently over my network which has 1 Linux 7.2 server as a gateway NAT and firewall using IPTABLES.

by dklippert

The suggestions include: If you can't uninstall, reinstall and try again the Unwise.exe may not be functioning.
After deletion, delete the Yahoo directory.

http://help.yahoo.com/help/us/mesg/mesg-09.html

Here's some code that it is claimed will remave Yahoo Messenger.
Because of the way extra spaces are inserted in these lines, you will want to watch for errors.

regsvr32 /u /s "C:\Program Files\Yahoo!\Messenger\yhexbmes0322.dll"
"C:\Program Files\Yahoo!\Messenger\Unwise.exe" /S \install.log /Z

by jay

sorry i can't use that because its on a network with different PC's, thank you very much for your responce, but the one i am looking 4 is to block it permanently over my network which has 1 Linux 7.2 server as a gateway NAT and firewall using IPTABLES.

by qnex

AFAIK Yahoo Messenger is using following ports:
5000-5001 tcp -- char
5055 udp -- phone

To get rid of it, use iptables:
iptables -I FORWARD -p tcp --dport 5000:5001 -j REJECT
iptables -I FORWARD -p udp --dport 5055 -j DROP

I hope that is what you asked...

by spellbinder

A better alternative is to use a squid http proxy.
And a good way to do it is to use URLs instead of IP addresses, as the IP addresses mapped to
URL names change more often than the URLs.

If you install a squid proxy server for your users' web access, you can control http-based chat urls effectively. sample rules for squid:

acl chat_yahoo1 url_regex -i msg\.edit\.yahoo\.com

acl chat_yahoo2 url_regex -i messenger\.yahoo\.com

acl chat_yahoo3 url_regex -i http\.pager\.yahoo\.com

acl chat_yahoo4 url_regex -i http\.msg\.yahoo\.com

http_access deny chat_yahoo1
http_access deny chat_yahoo2
http_access deny chat_yahoo3
http_access deny chat_yahoo4

a useful link is: http://nscsysop.hypermart.net/no_chat.html

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