Archive for the ‘Security’ Category

Yahoo! Messenger team up with Norton Antivirus to secure file transfers

Saturday, January 19th, 2008

I know some friends in my buddy lists will not accept any file or link from their friends for security reasons. I don’t bother when a friend decline my request and i can understand that it is why cause they scare to be hacked.

Good news is if you have Norton Antivirus 2007 or 2008 or Norton Internet Security 2007 or 2008 you can stop being paronoid and start to accept files from your friends. All files will be scanned by Norton for virus or other malicious chits.

It is only for windows users and you should be using Yahoo! Messenger 9 +

Since i stopped using Norton Antivirus product years ago cause it thinks it is owner of my computer but hey it is my computer and i want to control it, i just scan every file i received with my current virus program before open it.

Yahoo! Messenger security update for vista users

Monday, July 2nd, 2007

Two weeks ago a security patch was published for windows xp and Yahoo! Messenger v8.1 users and now they publish a security patch for vista users.

If you are using windows vista and Yahoo! Messenger 8.1 you should upgrade for security.If you are using version 8.1.0.401 you don’t need to update.

If you don’t know which version you are running and for update

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Yahoo! Messenger Security Update

Saturday, June 9th, 2007

A security update has been published for Yahoo! Messenger windows users.If your Yahoo! Messenger version lower than 8.1.0.401 they advice you to upgrade to the latest version.

How will i know which Yahoo! Messenger version i am using ?

- login to Yahoo! Messenger
- click on help tab at the top right
- hit on About Yahoo! Messenger

If your version number lower than 8.1.0.401 you don’t have the latest secure version.

As always when you get a file or link from someone take caution before you accept or click on them.

Get the latest Yahoo! Messenger version

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Yahoo! Safely for you and your kids

Saturday, March 24th, 2007

This is a late but good step from Yahoo! offering cyber-safety games, weekly polls, educational videos, and expert advice from Yahoo! Tech bloggers, Yahoo! Safely is your child’s guide to exploring the Net safely.


Yahoo! Safely

Secure your Yahoo! Account with Yahoo! Sign-In Seal

Wednesday, August 16th, 2006

Yahoo! just made a cool move for protect our Yahoo! accounts from phising sites .You can now customize your sign in box with a text,colour and even with a picture you have.

This will help you to know if you are really sign in to real Yahoo! website or a fake site for made to steal your password and other personal data, cool eh ?



Visit the Yahoo! sign-in seal page to setup your sign-in screen