gHacks Technology News | Latest Tech News, Software And Tutorials » buddy spy http://www.ghacks.net A technology news blog covering software, mobile phones, gadgets, security, the Internet and other relevant areas. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 16:53:42 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Yahoo! Messenger Buddy Spyhttp://www.ghacks.net/2008/08/21/yahoo-messenger-buddy-spy/ http://www.ghacks.net/2008/08/21/yahoo-messenger-buddy-spy/#comments Thu, 21 Aug 2008 08:00:11 +0000 Martin Brinkmann http://www.ghacks.net/?p=6327 Instant Messengers have a feature to change the current status of the active user. The different statuses range from available over do not disturb to invisible. The Instant Messenger contacts see the statuses of their buddies unless the status has been set to invisible. Invisible means that the user is online but showing as offline to his buddies.

It usually means that he can perform all actions to some of his contacts, like talking to them, while the rest thinks that he is not at his computer.

Buddy Spy is a software program for Yahoo! Messenger. It can detect if a buddy is indeed offline or invisible. The software can also check if the user is currently broadcasting with his webcam, if he is in any chat room and if he is on an alias profile or default profile.

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Buddy Spy requires the creation of a new Yahoo! Messenger account, usage of the default account would interfere with Yahoo! Messenger and cause errors. After the account has been created the user can use various scans to detect if a buddy is online but invisible.

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