Yahoo Messenger (YM) is one of the most popular instant messenger service. Most of people have YM for their business purpose or personal use only. You can have unlimited conversation with your family or friends, make a video call, send files or pictures, or get their updates from some popular social networking services. All those can be done if you already connected with them and they are in online mode. But sometimes if some of your contacts who appear offline, may not be actually offline They may in the ‘Invisible’ mode. Here are some ways to find out which of your contacts that use the Invisible Mode :

1. Open yahoo messenger and double click on the name of the person whom you want to check. The chat window will open. Click IMVironment button, select ‘See all IMVironments’, select ‘Yahoo! Tools or Interactive Fun’, and click on Doodle. After loading the Doodle imvironment there can be two possibilities:
   • If the Doodle are showing “waiting for your friend to load Doodle”, that means the user is offline.
     
   • If after few seconds (or up to one minute, depending on your connection speed) you get a blank page, that means the user is online but in invisible mode.
2. Double click a person you want to check to open the chat window. Invite the person for a voice conference. This is done by clicking on the “conference’ button on the top of the chat window. If the talk button appears and turns green then that person is online. But if you receive the message ‘Voice chat could not be started’ then the person is offline.

Alternate method is to use free services that available :

1. Invisible.ir

2. YahooStatus.ro

3. Yahoo-Status

4. Invisible-Scanner

5. 4invisible

6. Detect Invisible

7. IMvisible

8. BuzzU

9. Spy-Yahoo

10. Status Detect

11. Yinvisible

12. inviz.ro

13. yahoostatus.org

14. Ystatus

15. invisible yid

There are many reasons why they use Invisible Mode. They might be busy or they avoid to have a conversation with you. Despite whatever the reason are, we should respect that. If you found out that they actually are in Invisible Mode and you still try to send them a message, chances are they would block you which mean you could no longer chat with that person at all.

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Two weeks ago, when I was doing my blogging thing, one of my friend sent me a message via MSN messenger. The message only contain a link. So I clicked the link, and a website opened and asked me to sign in using me MSN id. I thought this was one kind of community site which using MSN id to sign in, introduced by my friend. Didn’t want to let him down, I just sign in right away with my MSN id. I was signed in, and my MSN messenger signed out automatically. The site didn’t got my interest, so I just closed it and back to what I was doing. Then strange things happened.

There was couple of times my MSN messenger signed out by itself with the reason that the id had signed in somewhere else. I just clicked the note to sign back in again. Rob sent me message saying that he just received link from me, and he suspected that my computer is infected by virus. I run the virus scan right away, and the result was that my computer running normally.

And today, Ed asked me about the link that I sent to him which I didn’t. I explained to him, and he suggested me to change my password which that what I did soon after that. And Rob sent me a message that saying he received three messages already today from me, which he aware that I didn’t actually sent the messages. He sent me the link to let me know what I was facing. Here’s the explanation..

MSN Virus, is a password stealer. You will received message via MSN from one of your friend contain a link in form like this :

http://yourloginnick.picfriendz.com:81/

http://yourloginnick.friendsz.com

http://yourloginnick.thatyou.com

http://yourloginnick.imguser.com

or other domains are possible.

When you click on the link, you are asked to log in, looks like this :

That’s fake! If you received this type of message sent by MSN by one of your contact, don’t open or even worse don’t give your password away. If you already done that, just change your password.

The only purpose of this is stealing your password. The victim my experience disconnection from messenger along with message “You’re signed in elsewhere. Click here to sign in again.”

friendsz.com : IP address: 219.136.252.211
City (per outside source): Hong Kong, Hong Kong (Sar)

picfriendz.com : IP address: 121.54.173.87
City (per outside source): Beijing, Beijing

thatyou.com : IP address: 208.109.181.209
City (per outside source): New York, New York

Thank you to Maccabu for posting this and made me understand what I was facing. And thank’s to Rob for this link. I had changed my password, so I hope everything back to normal again.

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