Yahoo (Quote , Chart ) is slamming the doors to chat rooms with names thatmay promote sex between adults and minors as part of an agreement with lawenforcement agencies.

The announcement comes after the company closed all of its user-created Internet chat rooms in June amid fears that adults are using the sitesto lure minors into sexual acts.

The Internet giant reached an agreement with the attorneys general of bothNew York and Nebraska to remove postings of user-created chat rooms withnames that promote sex between minors and adults.

The agreement also callsfor Yahoo to implement controls over chat rooms where users link up withchildren, view them on webcams and arrange meetings.

"We need to be vigilant to protect our children," New York Attorney GeneralEliot Spitzer said today in a statement. "It is imperative that parents,industry, prosecutors and lawmakers all work together to identify andaddress possible threats, and that we teach our children to protectthemselves from those who would do them harm."

Chat rooms named with blatant sexual overtones, including "Girls 13 andunder for older guys" and "Girls 13 and up for much older men" and were alllisted under "education chat rooms," were shuttered in June after theSunnyvale company apparently was feeling the heat from blue-chip advertisersPepsiCo, Georgia-Pacific and State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance.

"This is part of a broader initiative that Yahoo has been undertaking, including the suspension of creating user rooms in Yahoo Chat," Yahoo Spokeswoman Mary Osako said in a statement ."These efforts are consistent with and build upon our long-standing commitment to providing a safer and more secure online experience for consumers."

New York and Nebraska both launched investigations earlier this year afterthey received tips that children had unfettered access to adult chat rooms.

If the company does decide to allow user-created chat rooms again, it saysit will now screen all the names and will remove any deemed offensive within24 hours, according to Spitzer's office.

It will also make it easier toreport and follow up "inappropriate" behavior in chat rooms and will alertusers that their IP addresses are being logged.

The Attorneys General of the two states said that an investigator posing asa 14-year-old girl "received 35 personal messages of a sexual nature" injust 25 minutes.

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