Jul 1

ICQ blocks alternative Clients: Why we can’t have nice things…

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Today ICQ blocked alternative clients, like Pidgin, Adium and Kopete for KDE3 (Kopete KDE4 still works). Some users experienced problems in Miranda too. But i tried the newest Miranda version in Wine, and it worked.

ICQ tells the Client that it’s Version is too old. The message was: “The Client version you are using is too old. Please upgrade at http://pidgin.im”. Thats why the Users did a DDOS Attack to Pidgin.im :D

In german: “Die Client-Version die Sie nutzen, ist zu alt. Bitte updaten sie unter http://pidgin.im/.”

Here are some screenies:

Adium X

Kopete KDE 3

Pidgin 2.4.1 Ubuntu Linux

Pidgin 2.4.2 Windows XP

Fixes:

Pidgin Windows: Mirror 1 Mirror 2

Pidgin Linux (ubuntu): Mirror 1 Mirror 2 Alternative Version

Kopete KDE3: http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=165502#c26

Adium: http://alexmak.net/downloads/Adium_1.1.2.dmg

Moar fixes: http://www2.hs-esslingen.de/~hoadit00/pidgin/

So ICQ tried Users to convert to ICQ6, but free software works fast… Hack the planet

Currently you have to recompile libpurple for adium. If you want support for that, try the #adium chanel on irc.freenode.net


10 comments so far...

  • schickme Said on July 1st, 2008 at 8:15 pm:

    EPIC LULZ!!!11

    same here with Pidgin (Windows XP + Ubuntu Hardy)

    no probs with Miranda

  • Rose Said on July 1st, 2008 at 9:33 pm:

    Hi,
    I´m sad, that there is no possibility to “repair” Adium for MACOSX…
    Please, if there are a solution post it :)
    Thanks!

  • tanquart Said on July 1st, 2008 at 9:38 pm:

    Thank you:)
    the win pidgin dll works :)

  • rob Said on July 1st, 2008 at 11:56 pm:

    Many thanks, for this work around!!!

    win xp pro & pidgin 2.4.2

    The dll works as expected, thank you for the quick solution!

    Regards
    Rob

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  • izak.stern Said on July 3rd, 2008 at 11:35 am:

    miranda with wine works fine for me….

    thx^^

  • Daniel Said on July 7th, 2008 at 10:17 am:

    Ich vermisse den “Nutzt Jabber, ICQ saugt”-Aufruf…

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