YTK Pro v1.0 Build 250 Beta

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YTK Pro is the ultimate Yahoo! Messenger companion. This easy-to-use chat utility provides additional features to Yahoo! Messenger including enhanced privacy, unlimited safe list/white list, unlimited ignore bin, font and style filtering, the highest of anti-boot protection available for the Yahoo! Chat network and full spam and nuisance blocking. When you purchase a copy of YTK Pro, you get lifetime updates (for as long as the program is being developed), and the program is maintained by 2 developers, who release frequent updates. The free version, YTK Basic, is coming soon.

Website: http://www.ytkpro.com

Forums: http://forum.ytkpro.com

More Screenshots: http://www.ytkpro.com/screen%20shots/screens.htm

Advantages Of Using YTK Pro

• Ease of use:
  Select the filtering options you want along with their custom levels and YTK Pro will take care of all the rest!
  
• 'True' Yahoo! Messenger Integration!
  YTK Pro integrates with Yahoo! Messenger and truly extends it's functionality, meanwhile, adding in it's own.
  
• Unsurpassed Chat Protection!
  YTK Pro helps to prevent abusive users in and outside of chat rooms from successfully deploying "boots", "lags" and other malicious attempts against you to knock you off the network or interrupt your chat session.
  
• Chat Room Message Filtering
  Duplicate messages, "screen clears", lag attempts, bounce/jitter bot disruption and flooding chat rooms with messages can be optionally blocked so you don't see them.
  
• Enhanced Privacy Settings
  YTK Pro includes privacy features that go far beyond those included with Yahoo! Messenger. Extended privacy options allow you to decide if you want to receive private messages and invites from people on your buddy list, safe list, people in chatrooms, and from people that you do not know (unknowns).
  
• Font & Text Effects Filtering
  Message text effects such as fading, alternating text colors and large fonts can disrupt chatrooms and make many messages hard to read. YTK Pro can optionally filter the sender's chat text to remove these attributes.
  
• 'Bot' Blocking
  YTK Pro monitors the content of private messages and chat room messages and will block SPAM-related material and random annoyances as they occur.
  

Some Of The Great Features Include:

General/Instant Message Features:

• Remove all advertisements in Yahoo! Messenger
  
• Launch at Windows startup
  
• External Activity Logger with image identification of events
  
• Orange Alert Bar Notification
  
• Content Tab Creation
  
• Audible Alerts
  
• Automatic Font Resizing (scales messages to 10 pt size)
  
• Automatic Font Effect Stripping (eliminates Alternate and Faded text effects)
  
• Smart Font Face Adjustments (makes unreadable font faces readable)
  
• Buddy List Refreshing
  
• Voice Refreshing
  
• YMSG Server selector
  
• Blocked URL Catcher for chat room URLs that are blocked
  
• Kill off Online/Offline buddy notifications when they are not truly a buddy
  
• Flush DNS Resolver Cache Entries
  
• PM Message Archive Decoder/Viewer w/ search ability
  
• Auto-ignore Wildcarding capability (RegExing) of chat room message content, IDs, Nicknames and user Location data
  
• URL Blocking (PMs and chat room messages)
  
• Smart IP address Blocking (PMs and chat room messages)
  
• E-mail address Blocking (PMs and chat room messages)
  
• Font Weight (makes all on-screen text bold)
  
• Font Variation (makes all on-screen text small and capitalized)
  
• Ability to disable the local log file that Messenger creates (privacy issue)
  
• Blocking of Yahoo! Messenger (YMSGR:) crash links involving the URL handler
  
• Global Ignore Bin (only limited to physical memory) w/ auto-pruning & search capabilities
  
• Unlimited Global Safe List w/ search capabilities
  
• Logging of YTK events, Connection events, chat room events, voice events, PC-2-PC call events, unhandled events and unknown packet variant logging system (UPV) 4 "Zones" created for PMs: Friends, Safe List users, Chat room users and Unknown users. -Allow, Block, Block but save PMs, Allow only if contacted, Strip IMVironment content from PMs, Block Buzzes/Dings, PM web search queries, ASL, Magic Word Spam challenge check verification all independently enabled/disabled per group "Zone" 4 "Zones" created for all invitations
  
• Allow or block independently per group the following types: -Add Buddy Requests -Voice Chat requests in PM -Webcam Invitations -Game Invitations -Chat room invitations -Conference invitations -File Transfer Requests -Send Contact Details -Request Contact Details -Buddy List Sends -Photosharing Requests -Audibles -IMVironments -Plug-ins
  
• Privacy settings including: Do Not advertise my webcam status as "on" when I join chat rooms - Block P2P connectivity - Hide my PM "Typing" notifications from others - Idle status spoofing
  
• PC-2-PC Calling options to block or allow based on the 4 groups: Allow, Block or Allow only if you've called them
  
• Voice Mail Message Screening (auto-deletion) based on 4 groups (on hold)
  
• Offline Message management based on 3 groups with the following options to allow/block: -Offline Add Buddy Requests -Offline PMs -Offline Send Messenger Lists -Offline Send Contact Details -Offline Request Contact Details
  
• Enable Webcam Fix (Enables VFW for lesser supported webcams)
  
• File Transfer and P2P configuration (for direct file transfers behind routers)
  
• SOCKS4/5A proxy support
  
• Webcam Checker *scanning*
  
• Clear Blocked and Authenticated *saved* PMs
  
• Working Deny-A-Buddy for Yahoo!, LCS and WLM/MSN users
  
• Full WLM and LCS network support for PMs, status messages and add buddy management
  
• Added back Show Nicknames OR IDs in chat rooms
  
• Several custom menus added for full integration and convenience
  
• Packet profiling technology (advanced malformed packet rejection system)
  
• Help File and community forum tech support
  
• Offers full compatibility with Messenger versions 7.02 through version 8.1 non-beta builds
  
• Supports Windows XP Pro/Home/MCE, 2K and 2K3 operating systems (32-bit support only with 64-bit support on the way, also Vista support on the way eventually)
  
• Ability to run in Limited Account environments (does NOT require administrative privileges)
  

Chat Room Features:

• Recently Joined Rooms List *Join chat room window enhancement*
  
• Embedded Chat Room Activity Logger *chat window enhancement* w/ line count customization
  
• Option to disable Messenger auto-voicing in chat rooms
  
• Remove all advertisements in Yahoo! Messenger
  
• Show Yahoo!, LCS and WLM friend's status messages on-screen in chat rooms
  
• Friend & Safe List Join & Leave chat room on-screen notifications
  
• Mic Locker/Holder in chat rooms
  
• Custom clear chat screen hotkey combination creation (works with global scope)
  
• Automatically ignore "voice bots" when voiced
  
• Custom ignore message creation (WYSIWYG) w/ chat room broadcasting
  
• Window Filter settings for the chat room screen including a blur effect, flipping the text on-screen horizontally or vertically and an x-ray effect.
  
• Chat screen background color chooser (color palette selection and accepts custom hex color code input)
  
• Chat screen ability to set a background image in chat rooms via right clicking the chat screen
  
• Username auto-complete in chat rooms (also supports nickname auto-completion if nicknames are on)
  
• Enlarged chat room text input area
  
• Enlarged (widened) chat room user list
  
• Room Knocker/Buster
  
• Winamp song broadcasting to chat rooms
  
• LaunchCAST song broadcasting to chat rooms
  
• Alias Auto-"Cloaking" for Anti-Boot
  
• TCP Voice for chat rooms and conferences instead of default UDP voice
  
• Chat room filtering for duplicate chat room messages (slider levels)
  
• Chat room filtering for flooding & auto-ignore (slider levels)
  
• Chat room message inspection and spam filtering (slider levels)
  
• Auto-ignoring of chat room bots with similar names (slider levels)
  
• Bounce Bot protection in chat rooms (slider levels)
  
• Enhanced voice ignore support *stronger than Messenger's*
  
• Auto-ignore of chat usernames that exceed a # of characters (user-specified amount)
  
• Block ignore messages from other YTK users
  
• Block Winamp broadcasts by other YTK users
  
• Show contents of blocked chat room messages in the activity logger
  
• Recent Rooms List manager
  
• Create New Room button added back to Join chat room window
  
• Right click clear screen option in chat window
  
• Remove user's text from chat room screen
  
• Remove user from chat room list and add to Global Ignore Bin
  
• Chat room window and buddy list window transparency settings
  
• Clear embedded chat room activity logger support
  
• Command-line support in chat rooms
  

Changelog:

YTK Pro v1.0 Build 250 Release Notes

• Yahoo! Messenger Version 8.1 Build 209 (the newest build out) Now Fully Supported
  
• Removed /goto and /follow commands in YTK's on-screen command line help as Yahoo has done away with the commands altogether
  
• Added back external vox to YTK since it was removed prior to YTK Pro's initial release (no voice lag protection implemented)
  
• Added Keep-Alive option under "Advanced Options" for better client uptime
  
• Added AlertBar color selection option
  
• New Anti-Boot Option added (TCP Window Scaling and Buf Size)
  
• Added an open file dialog which allows you to point to Yahoo! Messenger rather than using a static, hardcoded location. The newer builds of Messenger allow you to install to custom locations so this was needed
  
• Improved preliminary 32-bit Windows Vista support
  
• Fixed typing notifications because they were being blocked entirely in the PM handler
  
• Fixed Messenger termination method as the old method wasn't resource friendly and was forceful which may have caused Yahoo! Messenger to not save some user defined settings
  
• Rewrote Blocked File Extension handling so that it's updated in real-time and uses the registry for saving blacklisted entries (sorry guys, you'll need to rewrite your lists because it no longer looks to any file, we'll respect your saved files in the future but we were too busy to write a file merging tool)
  
• Added a "Clear All" button to the Blocked File Extensions area so rules can be completely cleared if need be
  
• Setting BNF is not possible now in Messenger so this should avoid a lot of problems with zone breaking and/or Messenger's chat room bug
  
• Alert Bar is now full-screen again with no trailing gap at the end
  
• "Quick Voice Ignoring" now Only ignores a user from voice by default when enabled unless you have the new "Ignore from chat" option also checked which would also remove a given user from both the chat room and voice
  
• References to YTK's codename during initial development were removed, happened when detecting programs that could potentially break YTK and appeared in the dialog box (Thanks Ian)
  
• Fixed chat room filter levels because a bug existed that could put the entire chat room on ignore and anyone who joined thereafter would be auto-ignored when the filter option "Auto-Ignore Bots with Similar Names" was on the lowest setting
  
• Messenger Connection Type is now checked and adjusted if needed by YTK Pro upon starting the application, it will of course alert you and ask whether you would like YTK Pro to change the connection type for you
  
• IBM Lotus Sametalk support added to Deny-A-Buddy and User Integrity Check (UIC) PM zones (Magic Word PM Verification)
  
• "Block But Save PM" option now limits streaming of PMs to 50 to prevent possible flooding and/or resource exhaustion attacks
  
• Help Sub-Menu in YTK Pro's systray context menu was broken on some systems, it required a full path to the help file with some environment settings so this is now handled accordingly and should display the help file when clicked
  

NOTE: YTK Pro is a separate program than 'Y!TunnelPro'. YTK has similar features, but has/will have more unique features of it's own. YTK is also considered an alternative to 'Y!TunnelPro'.