Yahoo! Messenger Network Overrun By Bots

Yahoo! Messenger Network Overrun By Bots

A large number of Yahoo!'s instant messenger chat rooms are being overrun by automated programs designed to hawk commercial services, Web sites and other wares, preventing millions of actual human users from joining most of the chat rooms on the company's network. Normally, when Security Fix writes about automated robots or "bots," it's in the context of remote-controlled Microsoft Windows ...
Published: 8/24/2007 11:23:58 AM
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