Rahasia : Yahoo Messenger Invisible Hack

Yahoo Messenger has been one of the most oldest and popular instant messaging provide by Yahoo!. Yahoo Messenger has grown to be an irresistible Messaging tool for all ages alike. Yahoo Messenger provides several features for its users such as make calls, send smses, send files, play games, listen to radio, share photos and of course chat.

However, like all messengers, Yahoo Messenger has a disadvantage of making a person available to everyone - whether they like it or not. But there are ways where users can become invisible - and therefore invincible - to droves of their friends buzzing them just when their bosses are talking to them about their increments!

One of the most popular in-built features of Yahoo is to log in invisible mode.

What is Yahoo Messenger Invisible Mode?

Yahoo provides a feature wherein a user can log in to the Yahoo Messenger in invisible mode. It means that other people or messenger contacts cannot ascertain whether you are online or not. It helps many to maintain privacy while at work or just to avoid some people. But like everything popular has its demerits, this invisible mode of Yahoo too has problems.

What is Yahoo Messenger Invisible Hack?

The name hack suggests that it is something that breaks security. Yahoo Messenger Invisible Hack breaks the security of Yahoo Messenger Invisible Mode. This makes other people know that you are there online, even if you are logged in through invisible mode. This isn’t that difficult to achieve and many people usually do it just at a snap of fingers. Yahoo! being such a big instant messaging giant will surely come with a solution to prevent this problem.

How Can I See Invisible Mode on Yahoo Messenger?

There are two ways to do the Yahoo Messenger Invisible Hack to ascertain an invisible users’ online status.

1. By using a third-party tool
These third-party tools are used to hack not only the invisible mode of other users but to cause many more tweaks and reversing engineering the Yahoo Messenger Client. Yahoo! terms reversing their tools to be illegal and people should refrain from using such tools as also these tools may have spywares and viruses embedded into them and therefore could potentially cause damage to your computer system.
2. By using in-built windows networking commands
Windows has a built-in command to check TCP/IP connections called netstat. Netstat command shows which IP addresses are connected to our network. I tried doing this on my network and I was able to ascertain my friend’s online mode, inspite of her being in invisible mode.

Initially, I ran the command netstat –n to check network connections and got the following result:

TCP 127.0.0.1:1081 127.0.0.1:1082 ESTABLISHED
TCP 127.0.0.1:1082 127.0.0.1:1081 ESTABLISHED
TCP 127.0.0.1:1091 127.0.0.1:1092 ESTABLISHED
TCP 127.0.0.1:1092 127.0.0.1:1091 ESTABLISHED
TCP 192.168.0.11:139 192.168.0.10:3233 ESTABLISHED
TCP 192.168.0.11:3247 216.155.193.170:5050 ESTABLISHED

The first column tells us about the protocol used in communication, the second column is local address, the third column suggests the foreign address or the address to which the local address is connected and the final column tells about the connection status. In the above log, if we look at the last line, it tells us about our connection to Yahoo messenger server. Then, I asked my friend to log on to Yahoo Messenger with her invisible mode on. I opened a private message conversation with her and sent her a file, after which I ran the netstat –n command again with the following result:

TCP 127.0.0.1:1081 127.0.0.1:1082 ESTABLISHED
TCP 127.0.0.1:1082 127.0.0.1:1081 ESTABLISHED
TCP 127.0.0.1:1091 127.0.0.1:1092 ESTABLISHED
TCP 127.0.0.1:1092 127.0.0.1:1091 ESTABLISHED
TCP 192.168.0.11:139 192.168.0.10:3233 ESTABLISHED
TCP 192.168.0.11:3247 216.155.193.170:5050 ESTABLISHED
TCP 192.168.0.11:5101 192.168.0.15:2613 ESTABLISHED

Now if we see carefully, we got a line added to the netstat log, which gives us details of yet another network connection. The first ip that you see on the last line of course tells about IP address of my computer and the second one tells us about the remote connection. I think it becomes not so difficult to figure out whose IP is one next to mine. Bingo! The IP we see next to my IP(192.168.0.11) was my friend’s IP(192.168.0.15).
If the netstat utility shows the IP, it goes to suggest that a connection to that computer is made for file transfer purposes. Now, if the person was not online, there wouldn’t had been any IP address there, but because the particular user I am trying to send a file is in invisible mode or online, it makes a TCP Connection and I get to see it in my netstat log.
This goes to suggest Yahoo Messenger’s invisible mode isn’t secure and people should not rely on it too much. Still, I suggest, you should constantly check with Yahoo Messenger updates to be secure with hacks which could breach your messaging experience.

(Please note that this article has been presented before you only for educational purpose. I am not responsible for any consequences or damages arising out of this.)