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Yahoo messenger invisibility?

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by william_shaxbeard

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My girlfriend is having a problem. Whenever she logs onto yahoo messenger, an ex-boyfriend is able to tell that she is online even if she is invisble. I've checked her profle and she isn't shown as visibile, in fact everywhere I check she is listed as offline.

Is there a flaw he might be exploiting oris there something that he may be running in order to see that she is online? Any ideas/input would be appriciated. She is running win 98 second edition. Thanks, William

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by ann777

Generally, even though her profile is invisible or offline, he may get a message when she's in the process of logging in, before the system has read the fact that she is to be seen as "offline." I do not have Yahoo messenger, so I do not know thespecifics of their programming. However, you should be able to test this by setting your alerts when any of your contacts log in, and then having her log in. See if you get a message that she is coming online, and then suddenly she goes offline.

There are also other ways that he could be doing this, especially if he has touched her computer before and installed any software monitoring tools. People use these to watch what their children are doing and accessing.... but they can also be used in this way.

If both of the above are not viable, then I'd recommend that you wipe her hdd and start over with it.

by ronypp

There are two things that you can do:

1.Go to Login> Preference > Privacy>

there is a option at the end: When people see my Id on Yahoo! website:

Select: Do not allow users to see me online and contact me.

2. Login> general> Misc section..check the option for Login as Invisible Mode.

or you can just add him to the ignore list :)

hope this helps..

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