Re: closing security holes when using yahoo! messenger

From: AlanRick (DKUHLJZHEUKK@spammotel.com)
Date: 01/25/02 

From: "AlanRick" <DKUHLJZHEUKK@spammotel.com>
Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2002 10:21:31 +0100

"Juergen Nieveler" <juergen.nieveler@web.de> wrote in message
news:Xns91A059FAE492juergennieveler@nieveler-43544.user.cis.dfn.de...
> "AlanRick" <DKUHLJZHEUKK@spammotel.com> wrote in
> news:a2mo4h$go7$1@news1.wdf.sap-ag.de:
>
> > My first post so apologies if this is off-track.
>
> It's not so much off topic, but please turn off the HTML crap ;-)
>
> > I'd like to use yahoo! messenger but the latest update (5.0) forces me
> > to turn on active scripting in my MS Internet Browser. I believe it
> > is a big security risk if I enable scripting for all web sites so I
> > need to configure yahoo messenger as a secure site.
>
> Have you considered using another client? Trillian (www.trillian.cc)
> can connect to Yahoo, AOL, MSN and ICQ, all in one client.
>
> --
> Juergen Nieveler
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Well I'll be! You learn something useful every day.

Trillian lacks the fancy features of Y! but it is robust and safe.

I haven't yet got it to work through the company firewall but it works very
well at home. I could well get hooked on having all my chat accounts running
in one client.

Thanks Juergen,
Alan

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