Re: icq 2000 ads

[Jeffrey R Eaves <jre () pobox com>]

If your ICQ isn't yet updated by AOL to attach ads, you can
prevent it happening.

Go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Mirabilis\ICQ\DefaultPrefs
and change the Auto Update entry from yes to No.

If your ICQ is already affected, there is an advanced & slow
way to remove & disable the ads, but it involves recompiling
.dlls etc. See http://www.taligentx.com/ for details.

Best way is to revert to ICQ 99b or earlier....
http://members.home.net/red-chaos/icq99b.exe is one location,
there are probably many others.