If you have an ICQ contact panel on your website you won't be able to receive messages from it. Keep in mind that checking all those boxes will mean only people on your contact list can send you messages. If you really don't like that stuff then this is the box for you. This won't prevent bombing, but it will block those forwarded URLs and messages that some people like to send to all or most of the contacts on their list. While you are on this menu, you can also check Do not accept MultiRecipient Message from either All Users or Users not on your contact list. While these are not used as often for bombing, they can be so you may want to consider checking them as well. You'll also see check boxes for Do not accept WWPager messages and Do not accept EmailExpress messages. While checking this box will limit the number of people who can contact you to only those you have on your list, it will also prevent a flood of messages from random UINs, unless one of the random UINs happens to match a person on your list (odds are that won't happen often). The first option you can check is Accept messages only from users on my contact list. But there are a few other features on this menu that can help prevent message bombing. This is where you would normally add someone who is giving you trouble to your Ignore List, thus blocking messages from them. Select the Ignore List tab along the top and you will see a menu (like the one shown below) with several check boxes. Then click on the ICQ button and go to the Security & Privacy menu. First, make sure your ICQ is in Advanced Mode. In that case there are a few precautions you can take. Just treat people you meet on the net with respect and courtesy and you can avoid a lot of grief.īut sometimes you could be the victim of an unprovoked attack. Then one day they piss off the wrong person and get a rude awakening. They think that since no one knows who they are they are safe. Because ICQ allows people to remain anonymous, it leads some folks to get very bold and obnoxious. Seriously, while there are malicious people who will attack just to be jerks, many of the people who become victims probably provoked the attack in some way. So what can you do about these attacks? Well, the number one best way to prevent this and everything else described on this page is: don't piss people off. And since some bomber programs can make the messages appear to have come from many random UINs, your ignore list isn't going to prevent the next attack. In either case, it could take hours to close out all the messages by hand. Some ICQ bomber programs go through the Mirabilis web page while others can send messages directly to you. With the ICQ equivalent, your UIN has been entered and a flood of messages sent to you. With the latter, someone can enter your e-mail address into a program that will send hundreds or even thousands of e-mails to you. ICQ bombing programs (sometimes also referred to as flooders, but different from a packet flooder) are a close cousin to e-mail bombing programs. Opening a few of the messages you find that they are all the same, either garbled text or a message (most likely obscene). All the messages that were sent to you in the past year but never got through have all shown up at once. Unless you just won the lottery by playing your UIN, this is probably not the case.Ģ. You have become incredibly popular and everyone wants to talk to you. One of three things has probably just happened:ġ.
Imagine one day you log on to ICQ and instead of the usual dozen or so messages from your friends, you are greeted with hundreds, possibly thousands of flashing messages from UINs you have never seen before. Your #1 defensive weapon: knowledge.īombers/Flooders - 1,001 Ways To Say "I Don't Like You"
ICQ WEB HOW TO
So it is time to explain some of the hazards facing the ICQ community and how to protect yourself from becoming a victim.
ICQ WEB WINDOWS
But recently there have been some new programs appearing on the net that can, under the right conditions, pose a very real threat to you or your computer, particularly Windows 95 & 98 (oxymoron words of the day: Windows security). In the past, the few ICQ related "hacking" programs were also not much more than an annoyance. Gangsta Paradise by Coolio (based on Pasttime Paradise by Stevie Wonder)įalse rumors or a few too many Friendship Page URLs from a contact with CFD (Compulsive Forwarding Disorder) can be annoying at times, but there is never any real danger.
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