I have been a long timer with Yahoo Messenger. In general, I consider it a powerful and easy-to-use tool. One of the features YM (and other Messenger tools has is the ability to “hide” your connection status, so you can appear to be offline (”Invisible to everyone”) although you are actually logged in.
Recently, I have heard people talking about a yahoo messenger invisible hack, which in essence consists in a 3rd party sniffing tool that hacks the Yahoo IM network and detects the real connection status of a user.
I would like to warn my readers from using 3rd party tools to probe the Yahoo IM network. Those 3rd party sniffing tools compromise your privacy, as they can potentially open “back doors” to your system and have your personal information and data stolen.
If for emergency reasons still need to know how to know whether a contact of yours is online, although his/her connection status is offline, you can use one of the following two methods:
Using the Yahoo Conference settings
- Open a conversation with your contact.
- Click the Conference button. The Conference window will open up.
- Click the Invite button. If the Talk button is highlighted, then your contact is online, if not he/ she’s offline.
Using the Yahoo Doodle IMvironment
- Open a conversation with your contact.
- Click the IMvironment button.
- Select See all IMvironments then pick Yahoo! tools and Doodle.
- If you see the following screen, then your contact is offline, if the screen is blank he is actually online:
Please use this hack only when absolutely necessary. Enjoy!
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I used another software called BuddySpy to get the current user status, but however I stopped using it because of Security issues. This does sound a better alternative
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Cool Tip Gili . Even i used Buddy Spy before but these tricks are best .
Hey….the second trick(Doodles) don’t seem to work………..
Himanshu,
All the tricks i post here are tested upfront.
What YM version are you working on?
Gili
If you use linux the im client GAIM displays whether contacts are online and it shows if they have you blocked and if your on their buddy list. No hacking involved lol xD
If you really want ti check if somebody is online, or invisible or offline ..click http:\\www.xeeber.com
Good Luck !
i think the conference one also not seem worked.. it’ll highlight when the person join the conference
one of my concern has blocked my id on yahoo messenger. how can i check it n how can i unblock my id? please help me. Also please let me know if possible how can i check my yahoo contact is really online or not.
thanx