EveryBuddy questions (MS update and others)

[Jacob Anawalt]

I've been using EveryBuddy on Debian and RH for at least a year now. The 
past couple weeks I've been getting the "MSN Security Team" message "You 
need to update or won't be able to use this service" or something to 
that effect. Trillian use to get the same message but today I downloaded 
their patch to the msn and yahoo protocols. I have been  wondering for a 
while if some update would be made for EveryBuddy and tonight as I 
search around I'm not getting the "MSN Security Team" message, so I 
decided to wait on reporting the 'bug'. Besides, I thought it was odd 
that there wasn't already a bug report for this error. I haven't 
researched the issue to see if it just requires a change in Windows 
based code, or in the protocol.

Also while I was searching around on this I came across a page talking 
about a 'DoS' issue with EveryBuddy 0.4.3. I tried the test and didn't 
experiance the crash they were talking about, so I sent them an email 
saying that it didn't seem to affect version 0.4.3-1 in Debian.

http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/12817
http://www.securiteam.com/securitynews/5HP031FAUE.html
The everybuddy package in Debian _seems_ to be abandoned/superceeded by 
EBlite and ayttm. Is the EveryBuddy (v0.4.3) in Debian being maintained 
upstream, or have it's developers stopped or switched over to one of the 
newer projects? It has some bugs against it that are pretty old.

http://www.everybuddy.com/
http://sourceforge.net/projects/ayttm/
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?pkg=everybuddy
Anyone have some insight or comments on these issues? If I had all my 
net contacts on Jabber or something else I wouldn't wonder, but they 
arent. Most are on MSN, and a few on Yahoo.

Jacob

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