Question

[Dave Warren]

On 7/17/2012 8:23 AM, Mark Palen wrote:
>
> We are in a corporate environment and use Pidgin for those of us who 
> want to IM.  We had an incident where one of our lady's AIM account 
> was hacked and the avatar was replaced with a very indecent picture. 
> When she sent an IM to others within the office this picture came up 
> as her avatar.
>
> Pidgin has worked very well for us, however, is there any way to block 
> the avatar?
>
>

What if the "hacker" decides to send indecent pictures out via file 
transfer, or sends dirty messages, will you disable those features as well?

A better approach might be to avoid having your accounts compromised, 
and when it happens, to deal with it as quickly and appropriately as 
possible.

There's no way to disable avatars.

-- 
Dave Warren
http://www.hireahit.com/
http://ca.linkedin.com/in/davejwarren

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