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One programming man told when people chatting by yahoo messenger peoples from other computer can able to accessing files from our computer so better chatting by yahoo chat from yahoo mail. I not understanding. I chatting people I not knowing correct to business as docs exchanging easy in chat and difficult in phone. I now scaring peoples seeing my files. I not chatting always from office firewall (I knowing now by answers of old questions firewall being helping) so I getting attacked? Please explain for myself.

Sorry my English being bad but I can able to understanding by reading answers.
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No buddy don't worry about there is no such hacks.....

you can send files to your yahoo messenger contacts, but they can't see the files which are not sent by you.... :)
 
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Your best source for information on this sort of thing is always going to be an internet search.

Use a search phrase like yahoo chat hack, which found this[^], amongst thousands of other hits.
 
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Sorry answerers I not getting correct sites from internet. I little feeling messenger being open at hackers because I reading some sites saying yes but what yahoo mail chat being safetyful? I not getting that information.

I not programming man and please helping myself. I joining this site to asking because I feeling this site being better like one programming man suggesting and not others like rediff and all.

I fearing doing business because other tenders and purchase orders and etc will showing to peoples I chatting.
 
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Henry Minute 18-Jan-11 9:24am    
If your Yahoo account is protected by a strong password you will generally be safe. For more information about 'strong passwords' just google that.
It's not totally impossible. Chat clients have been known to have vulnerabilities in the past, and both Yahoo and Live messenger have been hacked (or cracked) remotely using buffer overflows, which means if someone discovers a vulnerability, and that someone is in your buddy list, he/she can possibly execute code on your machine. Chances are quite low that anything like that would happen though.

Also on Vista and Windows 7, the chat client will be running as a normal user and so even if a buffer overflow based exploit exists, the remotely executed code will not be running as a privileged user. That said, even a non-admin user can still read a lot of files on your desktop/documents folder/pictures folder etc. Once again this is a low probability scenario but since you seemed to be more curious as to the practical possibility of such a thing than worried about it actually happening I thought I'd throw in my bit.
 
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Yusuf 18-Jan-11 9:46am    
Nish, while I totally agree with your view, I am hesitant to divulge some technical possibilities with an average Joe. It seems to confuse them more. Dealing with families and friends, what I found the biggest vulnerability is user action. I have seems many of them share / download files using IMs, which has greater risk than someone exploiting IM vulnerabilities.

The saddest part is that users are not aware of their actions and can't even recall what they did.
Nish Nishant 18-Jan-11 9:52am    
Yeah I agree. With non-tech users there's a far higher risk of them running a trojan executable or clicking on a bad link rather than actually getting hacked. The OP seems to be a developer though, so I assumed he was curious about this sort of thing.

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