Tools for Yahoo! Messenger

Among all the messengers I have used, Yahoo! Messenger is the best. It delivers the best chatting experience.

Its interface is well laid out (besides the many buttons). Yahoo! Messenger has smileys to express almost any expression one would want to convey.

But Yahoo’s IM is so popular that it has a growing number of booters and viruses on the network.

Hence I use a program called Y!TunnelPro which blocks all booters. The program has a lot of features like spam guard, controlling invitations from buddies, safeusers ,chat users and unknown users,etc.

The ads that appear in the Yahoo! Messenger windows really irritate me. When refreshed they change their size and sometimes take more than half of the multi-user chat window.

I use Y.addsremover to remove all annoying unwanted Yahoo! ads. Using the program we can remove all yahoo! adds including webcam window ads.

I sometimes use NoBuddy to remove my yahoo id from another users friends list.

If you want to run multiple instances of Yahoo! Messenger you can use MultiYahoo.