Web Talk

The new  Yahoo Messenger (and Windows Live Messenger) lets you  store and download  its chat/message history locally, on your hard disk (or to your USB pen) so that if anything bad happens to your Yahoo account or computer, you will manage to backup and restore the full chat sessions back to a new computer.  The downside of this interesting feature is that, once activated and turned on, it will permanently leave your “footprint” on your computer. Basically, anyone (even if he doesn’t own your Yahoo username and password) will be able to recover your chat sessions or message history and see what you  typed.  This brief guide might be divided into two different mine-guides. The first one will show you how to download and get back your Yahoo Chat history by turning on a specific option. The second one will show you how to find the exact folder and path thanks to which you will be able to localize where you conversation are store. In this way, you will be able to manually delete them in order to protect your privacy from nosy users and hackers.