What does idle mean on yahoo messenger?

What does that mean a USB is trying to access your yahoo messenger, it could be phone or an audio devices?

• what does that mean a USB is trying to access your yahoo messenger, it could be phone or an audio devices? I have not got any usb or any audio device usb on my laptop or my yahoo messenger, can anyone help me and explain it and tell me what to do please!

• Answer:

  Yep, that's exactly what it means. So when that happens, click Start>> Accessories>> Accessibility>>Device Manger, click and let this take care of things for you. It will figure out what's going on and ask you all the right questions to get things figured out for you. Okay, so not being the administrator of that computer complicates things greatly because you're unable to change any settings on your own. However, I think you're getting way ahead of yourself when you start talking about being spied on and such. The usb is merely the port (hole) in your computer into which devices are plugged in to. There's nothing sinister about a usb or even the alert that one was trying to access your computer. Whoever worked you into this frenzy about spies, recordings and essentially you being stalked was being irresponsible in my opinion and I'm not sure s/he didn't think it was quite the joke stressing you out like this. This person saw your reaction, I think, and went overboard trying to scare you even further. A legitimate reason for getting that usb alert, could be someone on the other side of your messenger trying to get you to answer a voice or video call and your computer telling you to plug your headsets in or something along those lines. Or it could have been a momentary glitch of some sort. What is WASN'T, was someone setting up a spy station to listen in on you. Not to be mean or anything like that, but who ARE YOU? Are you a billionaires daughter, or a movie star. Do you own a fortune 500 company or have access to top secret government files? Anything even CLOSE? I didn't think so. You're like most of the people in the world, including me. Not worth the trouble of going through all these changes. Come on, we no body's rarely have to worry about things of this nature. Relax...