Real Spiced Ham

I'm beginning to regret using ICQ again, I get a constant torrent of spam from it. And it's not unauthorised messages, they can just be ignored. Instead it's all system messages like "Please authorise me" or even more worrying is "This user has added you to their contact list" which actually requires my authorisation, so there must be a hack or a spoof happening there. Today I opened my ICQ at work and saw that I had 30 bogus system messages.

The worst thing is that whenever you go to shut down your PC, ICQ won't quit if you have unanswered messages. Windows will detect that it isn't responding, but won't automatically kill it. So sometimes Paul's laptop can be left on when I thought I shut it down because of some stray ICQ messages. Very annoying, might be a good reason to change IM.