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ICQ/ComPad has finally a site (only works in MSIE) that explains what normal and strong passwords are.

This seems to be another step towards informing users after putting a warning on the ICQ site login window.

It reads:

A strong password is a password that is difficult for others to guess or for automatic programs to guess.
Some sites, ComPad one of them, require you to select a normal or strong password for better security.

There are 4 types of characters your ComPad password can contain:

1. Uppercase letters. For example: A, B, T.
2. Lowercase letter. For example: a, b, t.
3. Numbers. For example: 1,2,3.
4. Symbols. Allowed symbols: ! @ # $ % ^ & * ( )

A normal password must:

– Contain 6-8 characters, with at least 2 types of characters.

– Contain at least 2 types of characters. It must contain one character of any of the types in the middle of the password.

For example:
beDRoom – good
BedrooM – not good
Bedroom – not good

– Not contain your first, last, display name, email address or ComPad ID.

* A strong password is just like a normal one, only it must:
– Contain 6 characters, with at least 3 types of characters
or 7-8 characters, with at least 2 types of characters.

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Ever wondered what ICQ spammers see when their account got deleted because of spamming? According to a user report on the ICQ Expert Board, it’s “error code 0x08 — Deleted Account” as you can see above! =)

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Most of you probably wondered, how the eEye Temporary Patch for Zero-Day IE Exploit will uninstall itself after the official patch from Microsoft got installed.

So, how does it look like? Above is the answer. This appears after your next restart of Windows! 🙂

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What other IM networks can, can ICQ, too!
I have found here a plugin for WinAMP that allows to see which tune is currently playing in your ICQ! Rock on! =)

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This I call a lame Easter special.
Just a nice pic, but the rest are just links linking to ICQ Search results. Not really very interesting! *yawn*

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Together with the Relaunch of the ICQ homepage, the ICQ Team released 2 new versions of the ICQ Toolbar: A seperated download for Windows 98 and a ICQ SearchPlugin for Firefox.

According to the file name, the difference between both ICQ Toolbar versions is, that the Windows Windows 98/ME version uses ANSI while the Windows 2000/XP version uses UNIcode

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After the Zoopaloola game found finally its way into the German ICQ 5 client, as read here it unfortunately is not available yet in the Russian ICQ 5! 🙁

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After almost 4 months, Zopaloola seems to be finally available for the German ICQ 5, too!

I read here, that Zoopaloola is finally available in German ICQ 5.

Can anybody tell me whether it’s also available in the other localized ICQ 5 language versions?

Thanks in advance! 😎

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Lately, the new ICQ homepage has been launched, but lately, we users have also to experience a new incompatibily issue with posting in the boards if you use Opera, Macintosh, or other browsers (as you can see in the screenshot above) which proves the statements from the ICQ Team a year ago, in which they write, that you “must have IE 5.5 or higher installed in order for ICQ to work properly. – This includes ICQ’s website.”

Despite this fact, they have choosen later to include a fix for Firefox.

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As we all know, the ICQ Team seems to have decided to give up the ICQ Focus Group

(where people have been able to complain about stuff and make constructive suggestions to improve stuff in the client of ICQ and its services and the ICQ Team read and replied to posts).

Furthermore, since March, 29th, 2006, there is no more ICQ Support either.
It seems to be closed forever!

Result: There is no place now where people can turn to if they need assistance with ICQ problems or to leave their constructive critism!

Since petitions doesn’t seem to cause much when you look around, I ask everybody who wants to fight for ICQ Support and the ICQ Focus Group to write a complaint letter to ICQ in Israel and USA.

The addresses as follows:

ICQ LTD.
Mr. Orey Gilliam
General Manager
Kiryat Atidim, Bldg.7, 4 floor
P.O.Box: 58161
61580 Tel Aviv
ISRAEL

Source of address

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ICQ, Inc.
22000 AOL Way
Dulles, VA 20166
USA

source: Whois entry

The Israel address is from end of 2003 and the USA address from 2004, so they should be valid.

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