I don’t know how many of you are using Yahoo instant messenger but i’m a fervent user of this IM. Although it’s overbloated with rubbish, it is very user friendly and quite popular in many countries.
What I hate when it comes to instant messengers is that people can hide from people, yahoo messenger has advanced stealth options. I know many are happy with this option, but sometimes it’s a very annoying feature (your friend is ignoring you). Why do people need the cloaking ability of their instant messenger ? Well, that’s a good question.
However, I was always aware of that stealth option and whenever I suspected somebody from my firend list using it I’ve tried to check if the friend was really offline. In the begining there was not a big deal detecting invisible users on yahoo, there were few methods (voice chat, doodle) which worked well. Yahoo constantly updated the little bugs so it became quite difficult to see if your friend is invisible or not.
Luckily, some people did some research and found new ways to determine the yahoo user status. There were many websites who offered invisible checker service but many of them gone quickly offline. Currently, I’m using www.invisible-scanner.com, it’s working almost flawlessly since December, 2008 and it delivers! I must say that almost it has no serious competitors on the web. I’ve chatted a little with the invisible-scanner.com creator and he has very good ideas which could materialise in future.
So, whenever you want to track the “traitor” from your yahoo friend list, use this magnificent tool Invisible Scanner.
