what is being done to eliminate all the bots in all of the chatrooms?
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Bots get deleted on a regular basis, but it's almost impossible to control the amount in the chat rooms since people can create as many fake accounts as they want.  There are even programs out there that you can run and they will create hundreds of fake screen names for you.
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Recently, I was bored one night and decided to go into a chat room.  Years ago I occasionally visited a chat room that was associated with a video game, and it was a lot of fun and actually pretty pleasant.  THat chat room has been closed for a long time, so I tried Yahoo.  I downloaded Yahoo messenger (which took an hour because I have dial-up) and went into a room.\n\nIt was horrible.  Constant bots spamming, telling me all about web cam girls or visit this or that site for such and such.  I tried several rooms; most were full of bots, and a few had people fighting and arguing.  There was only one room that seemed halfway normal, but I didn't really even like that one, so I closed it.  I tried again a few nights later but got frustrated after about five minutes of it.  I haven't opened Yahoo messenger since.
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Go to the Tech Support Guy forum, register as a user, and start a thread in the Security forum explaining your problem. The experts there will help you clean up your computer free of charge.\n\nhttp://forums.techguy.org/\n\np.s. -- stop using free smileys and other crap from the internet!
487753
use avg, ad aware, & spy bot search and destroy as well... all free all really good
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Yes you can uninstall the other chat programs or keep them on.  It won't make any difference.  However, Trillion does seem to have some issues that I've experienced that the other chats didn't have and I ended up dl-ing yahoo chat and un-st the others because it works best.
316113
go to freecreed.com and download other yahoo chat programs...they work with yahoo messenger and you get no bots
482020
There should be a check box in the line directly above the first message that says "select all". Check that box and then click the delete button.
355201
Most bots have URLs and vulgar language in whatever they type. You can't get anymore blatant than that, so I usually know initially if it's a bot or not, and ignore it.
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open your internet options and follow by clicking on the content tab. after that click on the auto-complete box and uncheck all the items then clear all passwords and all forms. that should do the trick. good luck
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ctrl+h ... if theyre deleting history then get a keylogger and put it on the machine ... make an exception for it in any antivirus or antispyware apps so it doesnt get picked up ...set it to be hid and it will keep a log of everything ..
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No idea yet.  Seems nobody can get into chatrooms not even from home pc.  I've tried for 4 hours.  No luck yet.
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Tools, Internet Options, Delete Cookies button.\n\nThis should clear them all and let you start fresh.
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Yahoo has been experiencing this problem a lot lately.  This seems to happen to me when I am in chat about every other day. Try refreshing and then going back into the room you were in before.  It helps sometimes.  If not... Most other chatters are going through the same thing.
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Because these "bots" are used by hackers and hacker programs to boot people from chat rooms, as well as spam, and attack people's accounts to get them closed.
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"Bots" are auto-programs that wait for a certain trigger and activate. You got hit with some bad ones. "Flood" is to get someone off a channel used for private or illegal purposes, like spamming. Report this to the proper authorities and let them deal. Meanwhile, find a new chat room.
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It is unfortunate.  Yahoo is working on controlling them through reporting.\n\nThis is how bots work.  These people are paid well to do this.  A person creates a program to be able to function in a chat room and runs down the list of chatters and sends them a message hoping to get them into their site.  These programs are sophisticated enough to create multiple anonymous accounts that Yahoo finds difficult to monitor.\n\nIn the future, to prevent these from happening, Yahoo can create email verification or "characters in image" verification to slow these down, however the people who use bots will eventually create technology that surpasses that.\n\nI do not work for Yahoo, but I am confident that Yahoo is tackling these issues daily and trying to find ways to make the Internet a better experience for its users.\n\nI used to have AOL and Netzero.  SBC Yahoo has been the best provider for me and they seem to take bots and spam more seriously than other providers.
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Some bots on the Net might be trying to access your account. To be secure, they ask you to enter the code given whereas bot can't do.\n\nHope it helps.