I am very annoyed that for some weeks now, every time I sign into Yahoo’s instant messenger service I get two spam messages from random Yahoo accounts that change every time. I only get the unsolicited offers for illegal goods or services when I first sign into the service for a session (never in the middle of a session), and I always get exactly two such offers. The consistency makes me wonder what is going on… since I don’t get them randomly throughout a login session it is only mildly annoying, but I know others who’ve had Yahoo messenger accounts much longer than I have who do not get this junk.
Anyone know how to stop the nonsense?
Update: Turns out there is no good way to stop it, but you can elect to only accept new messages from people already in your contact list. That means people who would like to contact you will first need to contact you out of band (perhaps via email first) and have you add them to your Yahoo IM client. Sigh. Once again the evil creeps ruin a good thing for everyone else.
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