Spam ruining ICQ !!!

Page 2 - Seeking answers? Join the AnandTech community: where nearly half-a-million members share solutions and discuss the latest tech.

ILikeSprite

Banned
Oct 14, 2001
1,772
0
0


<< Use Trillian. It's kick-ass.

I haven't received a single spam since I started using it. Just disable WWPager and EmailExpress messages (these are where 99% of the spam comes from.)

Click here.
>>



Exactly what he said.
 
Aug 10, 2001
27
0
0


<< <<You can easily find the IP of the originator. Do a DOS on them and they wont be bothering anyone for a while. >>

How do you do that and what's a DOS?
>>



As far as I know there is a crack for ICQ and if you install it you can see everyone's IP address (if you use licq (linux icq) like me, you can always see everyone's IP address :p).
A DOS (DoS) is Denial of Service. It's what happened to yahoo, ebay and other sites early this year or previous year. You send a lot of data to an IP address and his/her computer can't handle that much data and won't be able to receive connections. So he/she can't use the internet anymore.
 

gopunk

Lifer
Jul 7, 2001
29,239
2
0
the punishment for spamming should be at least a few years jail time. i'd say death, but then you all would think i was crazy or something... :Q
 
Aug 10, 2001
27
0
0
But I don't get that much spam on icq. I get more on my hotmail account, while I got my ICQ longer.
And the few spam messages I get can easily be handled: right click on the name/Edit User Group/Ignore List.
 

joshg

Golden Member
Jul 3, 2001
1,359
0
0
I agree about trillian, I've been using it for about a year now, and I can only remember about 2 spam messages in the last year I think... very good and I didn't even have to change any settings (plus it helps if you are 1) an IM whore, or 2) have family/friends whom each uses a different kind of medium for chat, so you need all of them open to talk to everyone)

more info here
 

PhaZe

Platinum Member
Dec 13, 1999
2,880
0
76
same problem here , and I even have an 8 digit icq #, which is kind of small considering how long they are now ;]
but i come to my computer in the morning and I get about 3 porn spam
 

abaez

Diamond Member
Jan 28, 2000
7,155
1
81
If you guys go back to using icq98a you never get spam :). All I use icq is for messages and files so I dont need all the whiz bang stuff the new icq's have, plus low memory usage too.
 

Salvador

Diamond Member
May 19, 2001
7,058
0
71
AOL killed ICQ. I used to love ICQ and don't even touch it these days. I even went ahead and re-installed version 99a, so I wouldn't have to put up with all the AOL crap on the newer versions. If I wanted AOHell, I would've used AOL IM.

I really wish people would wake up and realize that AOL is crap. That is one company that I'd love to see go under big time!!

Sal