Re: Icq 2000 ads

["Michael A. Kalus" <micha () SWMA NET>]

I can confirm this behaviour, a couple of weeks ago a friend made the same
observatoin. I guess they are slowly "introducing" this "feature".

So far I "only" have it on sending URLs, but I am sure sooner than alter
I'll find it in the rest of my messages as well.

Michael

On Tue, 20 Feb 2001, Taylan Develioglu wrote:

> This morning I woke up, booted up win98 and showered. When I got back
> and tried to send a message through icq (2000 beta 4.60), each message
> suddenly formed a little window underneath the message body window with
> ads. Now I have ads underneath each message I send...
>
> The odd thing is, noone else I know has this behaviour (yet?), I noticed
>
> the client behaving fairly strange lately as suddenly the 'first-time'
> messages started appearing again (as in the don't show this message
> again messages - left/right mouse button, you are now in invisible
> etc..).
>
> To get to the point, does icq utilize some form of spyware no one has
> noticed untill now? Do earlier versions exhibit this kind of behaviour
> as well? Why me not others?
>
> Now I am really pissed at aol, you install an upgraded (new) version of
> their client. And 10 months later ads pop up.. BAM! No turning back
> because the db is now 2000-steelo. I also noticed that this is
> db-specific (as in my personal settings are changed), other uins
> installed on the same machine do NOT have the ads.

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