Corrupted Buddy List full of Strangers' Names

Me too - I just turn on this morning, and I have five strangers on my list. I tried to block them using preferences, but no luck. Strange...and a little bit disconcerting!
Gar

OK - I just used the "Remove Buddy" command, and they went away (having not added them, I didn't think to remove them). Anyone know what's going on?
Gary

Same problem here- VERY disconcerting. Any ideas?

Screen names and description of the Buddy icons might be useful.

It has not happened to me. (well as far as I can tell only looking at On-line Buddies out of nearly two hundred)

Do they look like any of these names ? http://aimpages.aol.com/aimbots/





2:08 PM Tuesday; June 12, 2007

I deleted them in a fit of half-awake confusion this morning. I remember one was called Moviephone or maybe Moviefone. Not sure about the others. Icons varied and most were obviously custom.

I did install the new security update yesterday...

AIM bots may be it... Weird. Thanks Ralph!

There is an AIM bot there called "Moviefone". You may recognise the icon.

The next bit is to work out how they got into the Buddy list.

iChat requires that you add Buddies specifically.

The AIM application certainly used to add new Contacts to a group called RECENT BUDDIES and if you have used AIM somewhere this may help point the way.



2:21 PM Tuesday; June 12, 2007

Looking at email.

The second part is the harder to trace.



2:24 PM Tuesday; June 12, 2007

In the eamil you say this is your Husband's laptop.

Does he run windows and AIM on it at times ?

Has he disengaged the option to also launch AIMPages (Not sure that is the right name but it goes to some sort of news site) in a web browser when he starts it up ?

I would guess this may have had a "feature" to add them as a sort of trial.



2:33 PM Tuesday; June 12, 2007

I've recently got the same problem this morning with added "Buddies" in my list including MOVIEPHONE. I'm wondering if this has to do with the new Safari 3 install I did yesterday. I'm going back to Safari 2 for the time being.

Chris,

Does your husband use his Buddy list anywhere else ?

It is held on the AIM server and can be accessed from any computer and any AIM based client application.

The possibility of an Intel with XP on it under Boot Camp or similar was just my first thought.

I currently have two Macs on line and logged in to two different Screen names and I am not getting this problem.

For others,

I know Chris is also in Britain, where is everyone else ?



2:46 PM Tuesday; June 12, 2007