What's new in YCC Yahoo! Bot Maker (formerly YCC Bot Maker) 2.4.1
Aug 27, 2013- Corrected the "URI Format Exception" message that was due to a change in the Yahoo! Mail login page.
- Added version to main form title.
New in YCC Yahoo! Bot Maker (formerly YCC Bot Maker) 2.4.0 (Aug 27, 2013)
- Changed the apostrophe encoding for security questions
- Changed POST variables
- Random domains are now turned on my default
New in YCC Yahoo! Bot Maker (formerly YCC Bot Maker) 2.3.1 (Aug 27, 2013)
- "Download and Install Now" works properly now
- Changed the wording of the 999 error message
New in YCC Yahoo! Bot Maker (formerly YCC Bot Maker) 2.3.0 (Aug 27, 2013)
- Updated POST variables: regType
- Added second security question
- Changed security question options
- Several internal changes
- Fixed Alt email problem
New in YCC Yahoo! Bot Maker (formerly YCC Bot Maker) 2.2.2 (Mar 11, 2009)
- Moved modRandomData into HTTPHelper
- Changed some compile settings
- "Download and Install Now" updater
New in YCC Yahoo! Bot Maker (formerly YCC Bot Maker) 2.2.1 (Feb 24, 2009)
- Fixed a bug that wrote the domain to the bots.txt file at the end of the password and not after the username
- Updated YCC List Control
- Better proxy error handling
New in YCC Yahoo! Bot Maker (formerly YCC Bot Maker) 2.2.0 (Feb 11, 2009)
- Adjusted the CAPTCHA image to point to the correct location, this was due to a Yahoo! server change
- Changed POST variables
- Removed regional servers
- Changed update URL
- 999 error image and a link to a 999 error tutorial
- Better 999 handling
- Alternate email generated by default
- Fixed 1st queue item non-continue bug
- Added more queue item focus options
- Changed security questions
- Fixed radiobutton session save bug
- Added fully functional proxy list with auto removal of bad proxies
- yahoo.com, ymail.com, and rocketmail.com domains supported
- Random domains
- Domain names added to bots file
- Invalid (errored) proxies removed from queue automatically
- Many UI and minor bug fixes
New in YCC Yahoo! Bot Maker (formerly YCC Bot Maker) 2.0.0 (Feb 11, 2009)
- Changed the name from YCC Bot Maker to YCC Yahoo! Bot Maker. This is to remove any confusion between other YCC products such as YCC AIM Bot Maker.
- Fixed a problem with version 1.2.1 where the only response would be Invalid SEC Word. This was due to a change in the Yahoo! servers and a new technology that they implemented which profiles the user agent making the request. YCC Yahoo! Bot Maker uses a .NET object called httpWebRequest to make connections to Yahoo! Although YCC Yahoo! Bot Maker’s requests have been designed to mimic Internet Explorer, The Yahoo! servers analyze the requests at a low enough level to see a difference and possible attack. The Yahoo! servers do not see this as an out right attack or bot so the response from the server is to ask for another CAPTCHA even if the first one has been entered correctly. The back-end logic of YCC Yahoo! Bot Maker used to connect to the Yahoo! servers has been changed to allow for multiple CAPTCHA attempts.
- A new GUI and appropriate logic. Most of the GUI and logic above the server request class has been rebuilt. This means that this release is truly 2.0 and distinctly different from versions 1.x.
- Queue. This is a new queuing system that allows multiple requests to be generated at the same time. This helps to eliminate the waiting time between CAPTCHA image loads. The number of items in the queue is variable but only the top three are visible. Additional information about each request can be found on each queue item and each item can be dismissed by pressing “x”. The last processed request is shown in the Last Request box.
- Fixed a bug in the Name Options box where the radio buttons were not being checked. The type of name generation will no longer be saved between sessions.
- Proxy support. This is a GUI representation of the properties exposed by the httpWebRequest object. Proxies are not fully supported and should be used at your own risk. The address field requires a fully qualified URI and must contain “http://” or “https://”. The use of localhost is not permitted (.NET limitation). I also did not implement a fancy multiple proxy list scheme as I have found that most of the public proxies do not support registering Yahoo! accounts due to SSL restrictions on the proxy server. If you use this function I suggest the use of a high quality and most likely paid proxy server. If the proxy server returns an unexpected result or the httpWebRequest object throws an exception, YCC Yahoo! Bot Maker will not die gracefully.
- User Dictionary name option. A new name generation method where you can provide your own dictionary of names to be used.
- Rotate servers. Now that YCC Yahoo! Bot Maker has a queue, it is only natural that the servers should be rotated while making requests.
- Statistics for each server.
- Many other things that I can not remember now
New in YCC Yahoo! Bot Maker (formerly YCC Bot Maker) 1.2.0 (Feb 11, 2009)
- Yahoo! added a domain (domain=yahoo.com) entry to their registration process
- Updated registration POST to include domainUpdated on the fly validation to include domain
- Checks for updatesAdded Donate function to About
- Added a reference to ICSharpCode.SharpZipLib.dll
- Ability to save and reset form information on a user basis
- Added HTTPHelper source to YCC Bot Maker source for debugging
- Added debugging output to HTTPHelper
New in YCC Yahoo! Bot Maker (formerly YCC Bot Maker) 1.1.0 (Nov 14, 2007)
- It works again.
- Changed the internal modBotCommands control to use the HTTPHelper DLL. This makes reading the code much easier.
- Made most of the server strings dynamic.
- Implemented new POST variables.
- Removed a few check images that are no longer used.
- Implemented the new "on the fly" validation of user data. This is used both to show invalid data and to set the ID as valid on the server. Even if you have valid data, if this step is not processed the name will never be activated. The main sequence will show that you completed successfully but when you login for the first time you will be told that the ID does not exist.
- The GUI uses the on the fly validation so you do not waste some of your missed tries.
- Yahoo! now does not permit a number as the first character in a username. Implemented.
- A valid ZIP code is now enforced. There is no good way to mathematically calculate ZIP codes so I am not importing them from a text file. Only US ZIP codes are implemented at this time.
- Tab order corrected.
- Reset function.
- Blank line in bots file fixed.
- Various other fixes.