ICQ - New message ads, any workarounds?

[Taligent]

ICQ recently "upgraded" itself and added large banner ads to the bottom of every incoming/outgoing message window. This is with 2000a and 2000b as far as I've seen, 99x versions seem to be unaffected. Anyone else having this come up? Any workarounds?

I really didn't have much of a problem with the ads for file transfer, but this is just too much...

 

[SonOfZeuz]

Look in the technical support forum for this thread;
How to get rid of those banners on ICQ messages!
There is an ongoing discussion on that topic.