How do you prevent hackers from ruining your yahoo messenger experience?

Highly Annoyed: How do you prevent hackers from ruining your yahoo messenger experience?
There are quite a few people in yahoo chatrooms who know how to “boot” users and/or jam up their yahoo messenger with error scripts. Hackers also have tried to transfer malicious files to my computer via yahoo messenger also. How does one keep yahoo messenger safe? Should I just uninstall yahoo messenger all together?

Answers and Views:

Answer by oblivioustroll
become a hacker your self and fight fire with fire.

Answer by Reaper
who the hell uses yahoo messenger? but for your question i’ll have to ask my friend he knows how to hack $ hit though i don’t remember him giving pple bugs or anything. we just use it for the fun $ hit

Answer by BigBear
i keep my messenger safe from spammer and hacker like that by login in meebo or any other browser based messenger. they cant attack you from there