Empathy 2.28.1.1 security issues

[Chief Fox]

Binary package hint: empathy

Empathy 2.28.1.1 has some security issues. For one, I get all the time random messages about joining people's web site to view their fake porn web cams which is not a problem with Linux because it can't get windows-related viruses... But it IS very annoying.
Two, there is no way to block a contact.
Three, there is no way to ping a contact for an IP address, so I can later run a Traceroute.
I'm just saying, It needs these implementations to be more functional.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
CheckboxSubmission: 538e5064f66ce306ced538e22a07c602
CheckboxSystem: 7bd8da88dafd60871851ac52e3ae8049
Date: Mon Jan 4 09:19:42 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/empathy
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release i386 (20091028.5)
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: empathy 2.28.1.1-0ubuntu1
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-16.53-generic
SourcePackage: empathy
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-16-generic i686

[Omer Akram (om26er)]

Empathy is not deveoped by ubuntu developers its part of gnome project so please report these issues upstream as separate bugs and then open each bug separately here.
to report upstream follow this link https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Upstream/GNOME

[Chief Fox (krgrubbs)]

@om26er: Thank you, I will try to put this on that link for GNOME bugs.