Comments on: Yahoo releases critical security patch for IM

Patch for Messenger addresses zero-day exploits that take advantage of vulnerabilities in its Webcam ActiveX controls.

[wayland.ind]

Yahoo!!!!

i'm surprised yahoo is fast on patching messenger. i know is the
windows version but still. where as for the mac version it has been
in beta1 status for 1 year now; i wonder if they'll keep up to their 3
year schedule for releaseing another version or just kill the project
for good. from what i know they only have 1 developer on their
team. is Yahoo that poor that they can't hire some more people to
speed up the release?

[GGGlen]

Yahoo

Yahoo is the reason I Google

[Itsya]

No surprise there

Well, I posted Yahoo's lack of security in February of 2004 and I am going to leave it there as long as the internet exists because when my Yahoo account got hacked they refused to do anything about it, it was a PAID account too, they managed to find the credit card information and I cancelled it back then, now I only use Yahoo for free and junk mail and NEVER use their IM, never have and never will. They are just too easy to hack. Seems they need to REAL computer professionals with REAL computer engineering degrees from accredited Universities, instead of relying on "gamers/hacker/computer junkies/MS certificates/(no slur intended) to maintain their security and design programs.