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• EARTHQUAKE IN TURKEY !!!
A very big earthquake destroyed very big part of Western Turkey and took over 10000 lives. To the ones who want to help please check out www.akut.org.tr
• New case : At your work, in the universities, in the networks your access to ICQ is cut??? Can we run icq stealthly? We need your ideas, solutions, comments. We couldn't find a solution yet. Every of your brilliant ideas will be published here under with your name.. Read the ideas or send yours (3 messages are available at the moment)

• New Case is openning. ICQ's History... : Differences between the versions of ICQ, bug fixes, improvements, all you want to learn. Click here to see read

• The #IrCQ-Net Plugin
Official Site says : "Now you can launch #IrCQ-Net directly from your ICQ client. Simply download the #IrCQ-Net plugin and install it in your computer. You can go directly to a chat channel of your choice and invite a friend to join you there. So download it and learn to use it." Click here to read our review

• Web-Based ICQMail
The company provides you a web-based ( the mail account that you can reach with your internet browser) e-mail account as HOTMAIL, YAHOO, etc.. for free. And they courage ppl to get one, to be able to give chance to develop the mail system. Of course we need it to be safe and fast service. Click here to read our review

LATEST VERSION OF ICQ FOR WIN IS ICQ 99a Beta v.2.22 Build #1800
LATEST VERSION OF ICQ FOR MAC IS ICQ Mac Beta v.1.7.2

FOR ANY OF YOUR ICQ MAC PROBLEM PLEASE VISIT http://icqhelp.findhere.com

CAUTION !!!
WE ARE WARNING YOU FOR AN ICQ BUG. IT IS POSSIBLE FOR PEOPLE TO ENTER YOUR COMPUTER VIA ICQ IF YOU HAVE ACTIVATED ICQ HOMEPAGE. READ THESE VERY IMPORTANT DOCUMENTS TO BE ABLE TO SECURE YOUR COMPUTER.
Not : This bug was fixed in the built 1800 version of ICQ.

DOCUMENT #1 - ICQ Account Hacking
DOCUMENT #2 - ICQ Homepage Exploit

ICQ 99a built 1700 is a time limited beta version.
The explanation of BETA VERSION in the official ICQ site is here:

• The usage of this time limited free software and the access to the servers are limited to the beta period only, so it may expire after a certain period of time, when and if the ability to purchase a commercial version will be offered.

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The most popular question in these days is "Are we gonna be charged for ICQ"
After AOL bought Mirabilis, people think than they want to profit by using icq. Now there are some goships   about this matter. We will try to make things clearer for you and bring you the latest news in asociation with another forums, wwwboards or people who are in charge in AOL. All of them are for free. We won't earn anything except new friends. Help us on this duty of making icq affortable for any user or completely free.

        HERE WE HAVE SOME TEXTS TAKEN FROM SOME ARTICLES :

   1) "..ICQ Inc. makes no warranties or guarantees as to the availability or reliability of the ICQ Services and Information to you or to any other user. The Software, the ICQ Services and Information functionality or any part thereof including without limitation, the access to the ICQ Services and Information granted to you or to any other user, may be changed, limited or terminated at any time, temporarily or permanently, without prior notice, for any reason or no reason by ICQ Inc. in its sole discretion ("Changes of Functionality"). ICQ Inc. may elect to introduce or grant different grades of service and listings policies, different levels of access or no access at all and different priorities to different users or to different functions, or to users of different versions of the Software., or introduce new features in this or in future versions of the Software that may cause functionality change, limitation or termination of the functionality of features in earlier versions still in use, including functionality changes in privacy and security features ("Grant of Different Services"), at any time without prior notice, at its sole discretion..."
This text was taken from ICQ's Terms And Conditions. This means that any icq user agrees the conditions before starting to use. Any disagreer MUST NOT use the program. And the text shows that our access to the our UIN can be stoped anytime even without giving a reason. So we can't do anything except showing our feelings to the managers... Click here to read the official Terms And Conditions

   2) The following text was taken from the MessageBoard of Mirabilis.
        *    People Ask : "Is This Terrific Program Really FREE??"
        *    And They reply : "Enjoy! At this stage we are concentrating on polishing and enhancing our product, to gain en even higher users satisfaction. We are evaluating our future pricing policy, which in any case will reflect our wish that the product will be accessible to the widest range of users possible. In the meantime please continue to enjoy ICQ."
             As the expression "meantime" strengthen the meaning, we can understand that they are going to make us pay something to be able to use ICQ.

    What is the meaning of BETA VERSION ? PART II

Therefore : The program we are using (99a built anything) will expire sooner or later. This doesn't mean that ICQ will no longer be available without buying the next version of ICQ. Even non-beta v. of ICQ can be for some charge or not hasn't been anounced. If icq will be for some charge, the team has two options to get money from people. The secure one, and the unsecure one.
   1) They can put a password mechanism in the setup program that anyone who hadn't pay money can't install it. But this way is NOT secure. By this way , hackers and crackers will be alerted and they will find a subject to manage. We don't think that there is a hacker or cracker who can't crack this.
   2) The second way is about the ICQ Servers. They will probably use this way. According to our experiences we think that they will take money by online cradit card using. The UIN which has paid its money will be allowed to login the servers. But this way bring us the account theft. The one who found a UIN and its password will use icq. The security for this is undefinite. After this option started to be used, the friend you are talking at the moment may not be the one you knuw. Estimating the results need a hacking knowledge which we don't have at this time.

And another way we guess is more userfriendly. The new program will have different format to login the ICQ servers. And anyother program won't be allowed. This program can be for charge. But this way cause copying the program illegally. Who copied it will use it freely. For preveting the copying, AOL may sell the new program to the ISP and it can come defaultly with your connection to the net. But this cause the increasing of ISP packets. And this way will make buying the longest period of connection more profitable. ISP s may like this way...

Click here to see the meaning of beta ver. from the official site.

            Have you ever received a message claiming that if you didn't forward it to everyone on your ICQ list you would:

1) Be charged for using ICQ,
2) Have your ICQ account terminated or
3) Have your computer reduced to a smoldering heap of liquid silicon?

Chances are if you've been using ICQ you either have or will receive such messages. What will happen if you brazenly disregard the dire warning and refuse to forward the message? The answer is: nothing. They are all hoaxes... false rumors intended to spread panic and make you appear gullible when you pass them to your friends. To put it another way, they are "information viruses" that infect common sense and lead otherwise sensible people believe even the most incredible claims circulating in cyberspace. To see more click here

THE LAST FORWARD YOU MADE SHOULD BE THE ADDRESS OF THIS SITE SO THAT PEOPLE CAN LEARN ALL THESE STUFF.

IF YOU GET A FORWARDED RUMOR YOU ARE SUSPECT OF BEING TRUE, FORWARD ONLY TO ME. I'LL MAKE EVEYONE INFORMED FROM THIS SITE OR I WILL SEND YOU A REPLY. DON'T THINK THAT YOU WON'T GET REPLY... I WILL ANSWER BACK TO EVERONE.

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