chat?

[Lance Delacroix]

Do "chat" programs (ICQ, etc.) put spyware or other ****ware on
computers?

[siljaline]

On Wed, 25 Jun 2003 09:39:32 +0300, Lance Delacroix
<lance_delacroix@fastmail.fm> wrote:

>Do "chat" programs (ICQ, etc.) put spyware or other ****ware on
>computers?

http://www.freewarehome.com/software...ware/index.htm

HTH


--
siljaline

"Arguing with anonymous strangers on the Internet is a sucker's game
because they almost always turn out to be -- or to be indistinguishable from
-- self-righteous sixteen-year-olds possessing infinite amounts of free time."
- Neil Stephenson, _Cryptonomicon_

[Robin T Cox]

siljaline <siljaline@invalid.com> wrote in
news:qmhifvgoaeaesvs8q9rd3v6uog2742na4j@4ax.com:

> On Wed, 25 Jun 2003 09:39:32 +0300, Lance Delacroix
> <lance_delacroix@fastmail.fm> wrote:
>
>>Do "chat" programs (ICQ, etc.) put spyware or other ****ware on
>>computers?
>
> http://www.freewarehome.com/software...ware/index.htm
>

Does anybody know whether the user can avoid getting infected by using
(say) Trillian to connect to ICQ, rather than ICQ's own chat client?

[Lance Delacroix]

On Wed, 25 Jun 2003 02:53:31 -0400, siljaline <siljaline@invalid.com>
prounounced a fatwah thus:

>On Wed, 25 Jun 2003 09:39:32 +0300, Lance Delacroix
><lance_delacroix@fastmail.fm> wrote:
>
>>Do "chat" programs (ICQ, etc.) put spyware or other ****ware on
>>computers?
>
>http://www.freewarehome.com/software...ware/index.htm
>
>HTH

Thank you. Siljaline: a man of few words and many URL's.

[siljaline]

On Wed, 25 Jun 2003 13:29:55 +0300, Lance Delacroix
<lance_delacroix@fastmail.fm> wrote:

>On Wed, 25 Jun 2003 02:53:31 -0400, siljaline <siljaline@invalid.com>
>prounounced a fatwah thus:
>
>>On Wed, 25 Jun 2003 09:39:32 +0300, Lance Delacroix
>><lance_delacroix@fastmail.fm> wrote:
>>
>>>Do "chat" programs (ICQ, etc.) put spyware or other ****ware on
>>>computers?
>>
>>http://www.freewarehome.com/software...ware/index.htm
>>
>>HTH
>
>Thank you. Siljaline: a man of few words and many URL's.

Hi Lance,

Why bother "chatting" if it's all in the URL I hope that info was
self-explanatory. If I could answer Robin here too, I don't know of trouble-free
chat clients, I would stay way but ICQ is thee most offensive...


--
siljaline

"Arguing with anonymous strangers on the Internet is a sucker's game
because they almost always turn out to be -- or to be indistinguishable from
-- self-righteous sixteen-year-olds possessing infinite amounts of free time."
- Neil Stephenson, _Cryptonomicon_

[Robin T Cox]

siljaline wrote:

If I could answer Robin here too, I don't know of
> trouble-free chat clients, I would stay way but ICQ is thee most
> offensive...
>
>

'Nuff said - many thanks for the warning! ;-)

Cheers,

Robin

[data64]

Robin T Cox <robin2803@hotmail.com> wrote in
news:XAdKa.118$%a.1610@newsfep4-glfd.server.ntli.net:

> siljaline <siljaline@invalid.com> wrote in
> news:qmhifvgoaeaesvs8q9rd3v6uog2742na4j@4ax.com:
>
>> On Wed, 25 Jun 2003 09:39:32 +0300, Lance Delacroix
>> <lance_delacroix@fastmail.fm> wrote:
>>
>>> Do "chat" programs (ICQ, etc.) put spyware or other ****ware on
>>> computers?
>>
>> http://www.freewarehome.com/software...ware/index.htm
>>
>
> Does anybody know whether the user can avoid getting infected by using
> (say) Trillian to connect to ICQ, rather than ICQ's own chat client?
>
>

I have been using Trillian (with ICQ) for more than a year now. Although
most of my contacts are on MSN and Yahoo, I do have some ICQ folks on
there. Have not seen any spyware. However, I will be giving up Trillian
once Miranda(http://sourceforge.net/projects/miranda-icq/) gets a but more
stable.

data64