The newest free version of Yahoo Instant Messenger (YIM) boasts advanced Internet phone calling in an upgrade that comes "highly recommended" by Yahoo. By clicking "yes" to the update, a user can expect to get a slicker YIM interface with buttons to quickly chat, blog, swap photos or call someone online. It even has new emoticons. Those changes are what many might expect. What they may not expect are all the other tools they get when not paying attention.
By accepting Yahoo's "typical" installation of YIM with Voice, it will also download Yahoo's Search Toolbar with anti-spyware and anti-pop-up software, desktop and system tray shortcuts, as well as Yahoo Extras, which will insert Yahoo links into the Internet Explorer browser. The IM client also contains "live words", which will automatically show an icon when the user highlights words online and then hyperlink to Yahoo search results, definitions or translation tools. Finally, the installation will alter the users' home page and auto-search functions to point to Yahoo by default.
News source: ZDNet Australia
By accepting Yahoo's "typical" installation of YIM with Voice, it will also download Yahoo's Search Toolbar with anti-spyware and anti-pop-up software, desktop and system tray shortcuts, as well as Yahoo Extras, which will insert Yahoo links into the Internet Explorer browser. The IM client also contains "live words", which will automatically show an icon when the user highlights words online and then hyperlink to Yahoo search results, definitions or translation tools. Finally, the installation will alter the users' home page and auto-search functions to point to Yahoo by default.
News source: ZDNet Australia
What's New in this release:
- New: Feed Engine; This one replaces the unreliable one used by FeedMonster before.
- Changed: Feed Database format; It is now an XML file that combines the feeds list (.fmf) and the feed link files (.flf).
- Changed: Web Browser controls; Same IE just a different control
- Added: Feed Auto Discovery; automatcally scans for links to RSS feeds in the pages you vist in the FeedMonster web browser.
- Fixed: Annoying Feed Selection issue; Occured when a feed was already being downloaded and the user clicked on
- Changed: Item Newspaper theme; Now uses a built in CSS stylesheet.
- Added: Status Bar; FMWB actually finished now
- Changed: Add feed and Edit feed moved; Now on a sidebar
- Added: Toolbar and Sidebar layout saving; Now when you reposition the toolbars and sidebars they're automatically repositioned for you each time you start FeedMonster
- Added: Tabbed Browser; now FeedMonster has a tabbed browser just like all the others.
- Added: Colored Tabs; Tabs in FeedMonster now have alternating background colors
- Fixed: ClickTwice feed viewing; now when a feed has never been DL'ed all you have to do is ClickOnce.
The final version had a different installation wizard than the beta, with a completely different appearance as well as design, and several "options" were no longer a part of the basic Next->Next->Next flow...instead, you would have to notice the "hyperlinks" at the top (which is highly unusual for an install wiz, there is normally a checkbox for Custom installs), and the link was dressed in a plain-white banner area that was anything but eye-catching. As a result, several people at my company were totally caught off guard when they suddenly had a Yahoo toolbar embedded in their browser after upgrading from the beta.
</span>plain messenger from Yahoo.com
here is the link http://us.dl1.yimg.com:80/download.yahoo.com/dl/msgr7/us/ymsgr7us.exe
OR just click HERE
completelly takes over the system
same with the AIm triton betas. installs aol explorer by default, it makes me completelly sick
yahoo went a step above that by installing ALL their **** instead of just a browser.
fred666: please do not circumvent the swear word filter
Last edited by 21031 on 05 Sep 2005 - 17:49
Link removed - Considering even just the title of the show, this is unnacceptable
Last edited by 28781 on 07 Sep 2005 - 16:19
Isn't that Yahoo Anti-Spyware tool actually Spyware ??
i think this is the link
http://us.dl1.yimg.com/download.yahoo.com/dl/msgr7/us/ymsgr7_437_us.exe
Last edited by 30689 on 05 Sep 2005 - 12:48
The description made of the Yahoo package is VERY similar to the description you could do of the Messenger Plus! sponsor except that in the case of Messenger Plus! nothing is checked by default (and the setup of the next version will make sure you don't mis-interpret the sponsor agreement screen with a standard one). Despite that, software like MS Anti-Spyware don't detect a single file in the Yahoo package. The criterias of detection seem to be very relative to who you are nowadays, no software user should tolerate that and that's also the very reason why there's a petition about it on msgplus.net right now.
I wouldn't know since I don't use YIM and have no desire to.
Play nice people, we know what spam is.
When doing installations why are you NOT paying attention? Programs will try to "sneak" things into your computer if you just click Next, Next, Next. Yahoo is not alone in this.
However during the install, two of the "complaints" are easily unchecked on a simple glance at the install screen. Sure Custom Install is only a text link which is unusual, but it is very easy to see.
I don't know why people have to make news over something that isn't, and something that in this case is easily avoided if you PAY attention during installs.
Arguing that the customer should know every detail during an installation has been a cop-out since Win3.0. Why people keep arguing this cop-out over a decade later is astounding.
Quite uncalled for
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