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....)
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