[rant] ICQ put banner ads in my message windows!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[JackBoCracken]

grr. You know, I thought ICQ was going to be okay. As long as they made it so I could turn off the pointless "features" they put in every new release, I was happy.

But now, I have banner ads in my message windows. At the bottom. Just lovely. The windows already took up enough space on the screen, and now they take up more.

[/rant]

With that done, does anyone know of an ICQ compatible client (no, not Odigo, I tried it and hated that Ad tossing spyware mutant that looks like it came from the land of Ronald McDonald)?

If it works with AIM as well that's even better.

 

[Fandu]

Maybe try Jabber. It's compatible with ICQ, AIM, MSN, Yahoo, etc.

 

[NFS4]

Same thing here...out of no where banner ads started popping up at the bottom of my messages to? WTF is up with that?? How do I kill them??:|:|

 

[Balt]

Click here if you love me.

 

[GoldenTiger]

I wub j00 now Balt .

 

[NFS4]

Ummm, what's the final solution...I got lost reading that thread.

 

[Napalm381]

Removing the three .DLL files listed will get rid of the graphical ads at least. Quick and easy fix.

 

[kami]

That's odd... I'm using 2000a and I never got any banners.

I'm using 2000a Beta v. 4.31 Build # 3143. This was one of the original 2000a builds.

 

[Napalm381]

Kami- mine didn't show any banners for some time, and then one day they just showed up randomly. Your version may be immune from it...but who knows. For a preemptive strike, follow some of the tips in the thread anyways.

 

[Balt]

There's some key in the registry that is like AutoUpdate = "Yes" automatically. If you set it to no (before it updates without your permission), you can avoid getting the ads. Edit: Actually, I guess not. :| :| :| :| :|

As for getting rid of them after the fact, just sort through all the stuff in that thread.