Re: Icq 2000 ads

[Jonathan George <jonathan () LITE NET>]

        How beautiful.  Remember all those "spam" messages you used to get from
people claiming AOL/ICQ will shutdown your account if you don't forward that
message on?  By enabling the feature this way -- if this is correct -- they
are basically able to tell how many people are actively using ICQ2000.  But
then again, shouldn't they be able to tell when the client connects to the
central server?  Hmm...  interesting.

-Jonathan (extasy () lite net)

-----Original Message-----
From: VULN-DEV List [mailto:VULN-DEV () SECURITYFOCUS COM]On Behalf Of Mike
Duncan
Sent: Tuesday, February 20, 2001 7:24 PM
To: VULN-DEV () SECURITYFOCUS COM
Subject: Re: Icq 2000 ads


I had this happen recently also. I noticed that I only got it after
someone running 2000b contacted me and he had the ads. I run 2000a and
never seen the stupid ICQ ads till he sent me a message. It could be
that ICQ 2000x might have it builtin to allow server upgrades to
software ... but it might also not know where everyone is until someone
is contacted. (or something like that :) I know that when you send
messages, they (like AIM) go through a central server and then routed to
you by IP ... this might be why you can no longer get IPs so easily. But
newho ... what does everyone else think?