Easy to upgrade YM 8.1

Recently, users often see Yahoo Messenger inviting to update to the new version. However, this 8.1 version is still unstable, causing a sudden escape, automatically changing settings in e-mail and sometimes causing Internet Explorer to stop working.

By default, this chat software will insert the Yahoo Toolbar into the user's web browser, change the homepage that they install and set up search on Yahoo.com. In the first download notice, users can choose to customize the settings by going to Options and then unchecking Select the corresponding items. However, what they cannot change in the new version is that the program will add a Yahoo Mail icon to the system tray and change the default settings of this mailbox. Terrell Karlsten, a Yahoo spokesman, said their software development team doesn't take into account the trouble encountered with Yahoo Mail and is fixing the bug. " The incident only affects a small portion of users, " she said.

For some users of Internet Explorer 6.0, that change may cause software conflicts, preventing them from browsing the web. Karlsen thinks that the YM 8.1 version has been upgraded to be compatible with both Internet Explorer 7.0 and earlier versions.

"We are rechecking the product and will notify users to download the new version when the program runs as the original idea ," Karlsten said. " The purpose of Yahoo's upgrade is to help the software run stable, secure before malicious code and compatible with Windows Live Messenger ".