Over the last few months I've noted that Yahoo Messenger takes a very long time to connect and log in, sometimes several minutes. This morning my Mac Mini started acting very sluggish, and bringing up Activity Monitor I saw that Yahoo Messenger was eating 98% of the CPU, even though I was doing nothing at all with it.
This causes me to wonder about YIM, and what it's doing on my machine. Might it be engaging in information gathering, or have become infected with spyware of some kind?
It used to be that it connected and logged in within two seconds, but now it thrashes on and on for a long time before it connects, and why is that? I have to wonder, and I also have to wonder what it was doing that used 98% of the CPU this morning when I wasn't even using it, and was invisible to all my friends on there.
I find this very odd and I don't like it. Has anyone else seen YIM do this kind of stuff?
This causes me to wonder about YIM, and what it's doing on my machine. Might it be engaging in information gathering, or have become infected with spyware of some kind?
It used to be that it connected and logged in within two seconds, but now it thrashes on and on for a long time before it connects, and why is that? I have to wonder, and I also have to wonder what it was doing that used 98% of the CPU this morning when I wasn't even using it, and was invisible to all my friends on there.
I find this very odd and I don't like it. Has anyone else seen YIM do this kind of stuff?