oh....this reminds of the days subseven would send ICQ pager alerts....ahh...the gold 'ol days.....
On Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 4:49 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, 14 Feb 2009 23:26:48 +0200, James Matthews said: > >> ICQ is known to have a few remote bugs. I use meebo.com instead of a client >> due to these issues. > > At which point you're probably trading known bugs for unknown bugs. ;) > > Of course, this is a battle the user can't win. The other option is to > toss the proprietary ICQ client and use some other open-source client like > Pidgin - at which point you're trading known ICQ bugs for unknown Pidgin bugs. > At that point, your best bet is to consider 2 things: > > 1) What client am I most likely to see actual attacks against? > 2) What client am I the most worried about attacks? > > (Note the two don't have to be the same - widespread ICQ attacks may be more > common, but maybe you worry more about getting hit with a Pidgin attack > because > it possibly means you're being targeted....) > > > _______________________________________________ > Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. > Charter: http://lists.grok.org.uk/full-disclosure-charter.html > Hosted and sponsored by Secunia - http://secunia.com/ > _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.grok.org.uk/full-disclosure-charter.html Hosted and sponsored by Secunia - http://secunia.com/
