Tutorial for stoppin or slowin down bootin
Created while using 6.0, 1750) Most people don't realize that the preferences menu in Yahoo! Messenger can be configured to prevent or slow the effects of most common boot exploits, especially PM bombs and mass invitations. This tutorial will explain in detail how to configure your Yahoo! Messenger to be as boot-proof as possible. It will also explain how to disable some of the more annoying and generally useless features included in your Messenger setup. "How can I configure my Yahoo Messenger to prevent booters and get rid of annoying options?" The default configuration that is in place when you first open your Yahoo messenger is riddled with openings and vulnerabilities that are pitifully easy to exploit with even the simplest of booting programs. Different builds of Messenger might use slightly different configuration and preference menus, but the basic idea is the same. Follow my outline and see what you can do. Adjust the remaining options to fit your personal preferences. When you sign into Yahoo Messenger, click on Messenger in the upper left-hand corner. Click the Preferences tab. Click General and uncheck the Show Yahoo! Insider option. It's an annoyance. Click Alerts and Sounds and disable alert sounds. At the very least, edit them so that buzzes and bells don't ring in your ears every time a pm pops up. It distracts me, so I turn them off completely. Check the box marked Alert me by showing a box at the bottom right of the screen. This way you see an alert, but you don't get that annoying noise. Click the Appearance tab. Click the Change Fonts and Colors tab on the right-hand side, and set the font to whatever your favorite may be. That way you are automatically using your favorite font whenever you enter a chat room or pm box. Click on the Chat tab next. Put a check in the Ignore Chat Invitations box. This will stop booters from using some invitation bombs. Click on the Connection tab next, and switch to Firewall With No Proxies. This will force your Yahoo! connections through HTTP and make you a little harder to boot. It might also cause a few dropped PM packets, invites, etc. Now, this next part is a little more involved. Set your Word Filter to strong, but do something else before you click apply in this section. Go to My Computer >>> Local Disk >>> Program Files >>> Yahoo >>> Messenger and find a file called filter1.txt. If it isn't there, (as with 6.0 and up) then I paste the info into Filter1.enc. I don't honestly know for certain that editing the .enc file has any effect at all on filtering boot codes, because I haven't -*test*-('")ed the theory myself. I do know that any protection it provides will be limited, whatever the case, since it only filters certain characters from appearing on your screen. Either way -- it can't hurt to try, right? Open the file and delete the encrypted data, then add this: <iframe,<src,<sound,<body, <fade,<html,</iframe,</snd,</body, </html,<embed,</embed,<img,<url,<a ,<&#,&#,msg:</ Now click save and close the file. Click apply back in preferences. There are much larger boot filters, but this should be fine in most cases. Click Content Tabs next and take off all the unnecessary junk that you don't really need to see anyway. Click the File Transfer tab next. Click Never accept files from anyone, and Never allow others to download files from me. That will stop the file request booters. Click the Ignore List tab next. Click the dot next to Ignore anyone who is not on my Messenger list. This will stop pm bombs from reaching you. Click the Messages tab. Click the dot next to Minimize the message window to the task bar, then Show the messages in a single window. Disable IM Environments and audibles by removing the check mark in the box beside them. This adds still more protection against popular boots. Click the Privacy tab next. Check the Always Sign in as Invisible option. Uncheck the rest of the boxes--every one of them. This will help you maintain your privacy while online. Go down to Webcam next. Check Always allow the following people to view my webcam, then place a check in the box marked Ignore other view requests. Cloaking Your ID Without Y!Tunnel - Once you enter a chat room, go to the Messenger screen and click Messenger > My Profiles. Set the profile you're using in chat as Inactive. This will tell the Yahoo! servers to drop a large percentage of the packets that come your way, helping to prevent lag and disconnect boots from finding an opening. One last thing...consider the possibility of logging in with a fast, reliable HTTP proxy. There are benefits you might not have considered. if ya'll lik'd de tutorial i posted den plz let me know by postin ova here
Created while using 6.0, 1750) Most people don't realize that the preferences menu in Yahoo! Messenger can be configured to prevent or slow the effects of most common boot exploits, especially PM bombs and mass invitations. This tutorial will explain in detail how to configure your Yahoo! Messenger to be as boot-proof as possible. It will also explain how to disable some of the more annoying and generally useless features included in your Messenger setup. "How can I configure my Yahoo Messenger to prevent booters and get rid of annoying options?" The default configuration that is in place when you first open your Yahoo messenger is riddled with openings and vulnerabilities that are pitifully easy to exploit with even the simplest of booting programs. Different builds of Messenger might use slightly different configuration and preference menus, but the basic idea is the same. Follow my outline and see what you can do. Adjust the remaining options to fit your personal preferences. When you sign into Yahoo Messenger, click on Messenger in the upper left-hand corner. Click the Preferences tab. Click General and uncheck the Show Yahoo! Insider option. It's an annoyance. Click Alerts and Sounds and disable alert sounds. At the very least, edit them so that buzzes and bells don't ring in your ears every time a pm pops up. It distracts me, so I turn them off completely. Check the box marked Alert me by showing a box at the bottom right of the screen. This way you see an alert, but you don't get that annoying noise. Click the Appearance tab. Click the Change Fonts and Colors tab on the right-hand side, and set the font to whatever your favorite may be. That way you are automatically using your favorite font whenever you enter a chat room or pm box. Click on the Chat tab next. Put a check in the Ignore Chat Invitations box. This will stop booters from using some invitation bombs. Click on the Connection tab next, and switch to Firewall With No Proxies. This will force your Yahoo! connections through HTTP and make you a little harder to boot. It might also cause a few dropped PM packets, invites, etc. Now, this next part is a little more involved. Set your Word Filter to strong, but do something else before you click apply in this section. Go to My Computer >>> Local Disk >>> Program Files >>> Yahoo >>> Messenger and find a file called filter1.txt. If it isn't there, (as with 6.0 and up) then I paste the info into Filter1.enc. I don't honestly know for certain that editing the .enc file has any effect at all on filtering boot codes, because I haven't -*test*-('")ed the theory myself. I do know that any protection it provides will be limited, whatever the case, since it only filters certain characters from appearing on your screen. Either way -- it can't hurt to try, right? Open the file and delete the encrypted data, then add this: <iframe,<src,<sound,<body, <fade,<html,</iframe,</snd,</body, </html,<embed,</embed,<img,<url,<a ,<&#,&#,msg:</ Now click save and close the file. Click apply back in preferences. There are much larger boot filters, but this should be fine in most cases. Click Content Tabs next and take off all the unnecessary junk that you don't really need to see anyway. Click the File Transfer tab next. Click Never accept files from anyone, and Never allow others to download files from me. That will stop the file request booters. Click the Ignore List tab next. Click the dot next to Ignore anyone who is not on my Messenger list. This will stop pm bombs from reaching you. Click the Messages tab. Click the dot next to Minimize the message window to the task bar, then Show the messages in a single window. Disable IM Environments and audibles by removing the check mark in the box beside them. This adds still more protection against popular boots. Click the Privacy tab next. Check the Always Sign in as Invisible option. Uncheck the rest of the boxes--every one of them. This will help you maintain your privacy while online. Go down to Webcam next. Check Always allow the following people to view my webcam, then place a check in the box marked Ignore other view requests. Cloaking Your ID Without Y!Tunnel - Once you enter a chat room, go to the Messenger screen and click Messenger > My Profiles. Set the profile you're using in chat as Inactive. This will tell the Yahoo! servers to drop a large percentage of the packets that come your way, helping to prevent lag and disconnect boots from finding an opening. One last thing...consider the possibility of logging in with a fast, reliable HTTP proxy. There are benefits you might not have considered. if ya'll lik'd de tutorial i posted den plz let me know by postin ova here