:) it's not yahoo to blaim for that!\nthe only place where the arhived im from yahoo messenger are stored it's in the Yahoo! Messenger Profiles if you had instaled windows in the c: drive and the messenger files into "program files" you will find the arhive stored at this path "C: Program Files Yahoo! Messenger Profiles"\n!so the arhive it's stored on your computer.\n!logicly there are only two ways that a hacker can acces your IM arhive:\n1. The hacker has acces to your compuer.\n2. You had shared yor program program files folder on the p2p networks or any other file sharing network eg (odc++ , dc++ , e donkey , kazza , lime wire..so onn..\nThis it's how you can protect yoursef:\n1. If it is the first case than you'll have to insal a strong frewall and i mean STRONG something like black ice\nyou can find black ice on sofpedia or at the black ice home page.\n2. In the second case unshare the files from p2p networks!\nGood Luck ;)