Despite the fact that the new versions of ICQ have a huge number of pleasant innovations, the ICQ developers still could not get rid of some old "sins". One of them is an incomprehensible notification system about some problems in the installation version of the messenger. Usually the user sees a blinking letter i on the ICE icon and cannot do anything about it.
This icon can indicate anything. It is good when the user, when hovering over the ICQ icon, will be able to see a message about what specific problem has arisen in the work of ICQ. But in most cases this does not happen - no message is displayed. Then you have to guess on your own what the problem is.
Some reasons for the blinking letter i on the ICE icon are as follows:
- insecure password (sometimes during registration, the system accepts a password, and only then checks it and, in case of non-compliance with the requirements, issues a corresponding message);
- unauthorized access to data (occurs if the account was logged in from another device or IP address);
- impossibility of authorization due to problems with the Internet;
- malfunction of any ICQ modules.
Solution
So, if the letter i is blinking on the ICQ icon and nothing happens when you hover the mouse cursor, you need the following solutions to the problem:
Surely, one of these methods should help in order to solve the problem with the blinking letter i on the ICQ icon. The latter should be used last, because you can always manage to reinstall the program, but there is no guarantee that the problem will not arise again.
Hello, friends. The most intense social period is the holiday. New Year... After that, will you go into deep silence for a whole year? What about new acquaintances, friends, relatives - they will cry, miss.
Do not forget about them, communicate on the Internet at least. There are a great many ways to communicate online. You can use Skype (video calls), just - high-quality voice communication, but it is possible by correspondence in ICE.
Today I will tell you about the last method of communication on the Internet in detail. ICQ on computer- what kind of beast is this, how to install ICQ, configure and use it - all the answers are in the article.
Let's skip the history of the emergence of the ICQ messenger, starting from the Stone Age - I will say in a nutshell. We saw this flower on the Internet ...
This is the ICE emblem. It is used by almost all support services on various sites and services.
The ICQ protocol (I seek you) appeared a long time ago and many predicted oblivion, death in the competition with new communication technologies. But he not only survived, but also develops, blooms and smells. Everything is simple - convenient, fast, practical.
Judge for yourself. Skype (and other video dialers) - need a webcam and microphone. You need to buy, connect, configure ... you need good quality communication, not the most weak computer… But this is not the main thing. I asked users ...
- Why don't you use Skype?
- Everything is complicated there, and in general ...
Something like an indistinct answer. The true reason for refusing this type of communication (applies to any voice communication) - there is no time to think before answering, you can "blurt out" something wrong and then bite your elbows ... distracts from the great things on the Internet ...
Many are simply shy. Remember, as in the song - "and made up - scary and not made up ...".
There are no such problems with ICQ. You go about your business, wander around the sites and correspond in short phrases with a dozen people - no one forces you to write letters in two sheets. You can also exchange links instantly, a picture or an interesting file - wonderful. Practical.
There are many programs supporting the ICQ communication protocol on the Internet, but one of the first and best was and is - ICQ. By registering in it, you will receive a number that can be used in other messengers (as such programs are called). It will be like mobile number phone - permanent, not changing after buying a new phone (reinstalling operating system). My room is 15 years old.
ICQ (ICQ) - installation and configuration
First of all, you need to download ICQ from ICQ official website.
How to install ICQ
Click on the installation shortcut and the first window will appear ...
If suddenly on English language- press the triangle in the first, top line and choose your language ...
SPECIAL ATTENTION! Remember talked about all sorts of unnecessary toolbars, panels and forced replacement, "no demand", search engine in the default browser? This is just such a case. If you choose the first option "(Recommended)" - will change Homepage, search by default, the additional panel and Sputnik Mail.ru will be installed.
Put a dot on the second option and remove all the jackdaws. Do you think there are only three lines in a tricky, narrow field? Not! This is done on purpose, so that at least something superfluous is vpar. Courageously click on the small triangle on the right and remove ALL jackdaws - from all lines.
The installation went ...
We press "Finish".
How to get an ICQ number
We register on the service and get the ICQ number ...
Want to get icq number without installing the program - registration link.
For a long time I could not enter the password. Until I figured out the error - it must be at least 6 characters, if the letters, then only Latin, and also, attention - symbols or numbers should not be repeated more than 3 times(3777773 will fail).
Wait a minute and get an email mailbox, which was indicated during registration ...
We click the joyful, green button ...
We get a window in which they ask for a login and PASSWORD from an email account. I liked the signature - "We will not save your password." Funny boys. I just closed the window - whoever needs it, I will give the icq number and add it to the contacts myself, as follows ...
How to set up ICQ (ICQ)
For example, I entered the number icq ...
You can find out your number in the profile (settings - my profile) - remember it, or better write it down along with the password on a piece of paper and hide it. Now remember them, and in an hour you will re-register - I know what I am saying.
By clicking on an empty avatar field, select a picture for your profile ...
If you press the right button.
I will not describe all the settings, I will focus on an important point. You must specify the folder in the "File transfer" item to save the received files or pictures. The default is incorrect ...
It must be ...
Now we click on the contact we want to communicate with and write a couple of words in the lower field ...
Do not worry that there is no one to write to - very soon you will mercilessly delete unnecessary contacts, believe me. Remember the search box?
Here you can find a huge number of interesting interlocutors. Put the search parameters at random and they will be. To transfer the file, you need to specify the resolution in the settings. Now during the correspondence press ...
Specify the location of the file and that's it. The main thing is that the interlocutor also has a tick in the settings. Tell the clumsy people where and how to do this, or copy the link to the article and paste it into the ICQ field.
Now you know that ICQ on a computer is easy. Until new useful computer programs and .
USEFUL VIDEO
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We'll talk about what is ICQ, or as they say “among the people” ICQ, as its pronunciation sounds like “ai-si-kyu”. She is also an Internet pager.
ICQ is one of the largest networks through which millions of people can exchange instant messages on the Internet. ICQ stands for I seek You, which translated from English means "I'm looking for you." ICQ is currently owned by the Russian investment fund Mail.ru Group.
Now that you have already understood, what is ICQ, let's take a look at all the possible points.
ICQ is a centralized instant messaging service that runs on the OSCAR protocol. The service user is rewritten using the client program, which includes an Internet connection. The program connects via the Internet to a server through which it searches and communicates with other users. Messaging can be with the participation of the server itself or without it. As in other large network systems that serve a large number of client requests, this server not the only one and some are server clusters.
The first version of ICQ 0.5 was released in November 1996 and became one of the very first Internet chats.
ICQ was developed by four young programmers from Israel, Tel Aviv: Sefi Vigiser, Arik Vardi, Yair Goldfinger and Amnon Amir. They created their own company and named it Mirabilis (translated from Latin as wonderful, amazing).
The service is commercial, but you can use it for free. Operates the service ICQ Inc. At the time of creation, the service belonged to its creator, that is, Mirabilis. After some time (1998) it was sold to the American company AOL, after which in April 2010 it was taken over by the Russian investment fund Digital Sky Technologies (DST). After the reorganization of DST (September, 2010) ICQ joined Mail.Ru Group. In addition to ensuring the server's performance, ICQ Inc. develops various client programs and maintains an additional website.
Since its inception, ICQ has released many clients and has undergone many changes. In December 2011, the total monthly ICQ audience was calculated. In Russia - 15.7 million, and in the world - 27 million. Most of the sites of organizations, enterprises, as well as companies use their asec numbers (UIN) as a connection. ICQ is also used as a quick technical support.
Account
In order to use ICQ you need to create an account, i.e. account. it is possible, both with the help of the client program, and on the official website. Instead of a customer identifier, the service uses the so-called UIN, which stands for Universal Identification Number, which translates from English as, Universal Identification Number. UIN is a number that consists of 5-9 Arabic digits, which is unique for each account. This number is created during registration in the system, after which you can log in using the UIN and password. V latest version for mobile phones supporting J2ME made it possible to enter by number mobile phone, which automatically becomes the UIN for the new account.
Autumn 2011. ICQ has been updated and an important change has been made: from now on it supports multiple connections using only one account.
For each account, the system stores the following data:
Nickname (login) - the name that is displayed in the system, i.e. a fictitious pseudonym. The difference from UIN is that what can be changed to a new one, and which can be non-unique, that is, different accounts can have the same nickname;
E-mail - address email, with which you can restore access to your account in case of password loss, and can also be used to log in instead of a hard-to-remember number;
Information available to everyone, which is entered by the user himself. It may include name, surname, what you are hobbies for, residence, knowledge of languages, your text description, etc.;
One avatar, which can be in BMP formats, JPEG or GIF;
The list of your contacts is a list of UIN numbers of other users (interlocutors), with whom you can quickly contact and see their presence status in the contacts window. This list is compiled by the user himself;
Presence status;
There is also an additional informational status that the user enters.
The history of correspondence on the servers will not be saved. It is available through the program interface and can be viewed locally only through the program installed on the user's device.
Calling the history of messages with the interlocutor and adding him to the list of your contacts can be done only knowing his number. To search for other UINs, an internal search function is built into the client interface, with which you can get a list of users in accordance with the entered information in the search: match by name, email address, UIN number, gender, age, country and presence status.
You cannot delete your UIN number from the system. This opportunity existed until 2002.
Presence status
Each account has a presence status, indicating whether the user is connected to the network and whether he is ready to respond to messages at that moment. The user's status is also shown in the chat window and in the contact list. The main status of the user is the green flower icon, which serves as an indicator of his presence near the device and whether he is ready to respond to messages. There are a number of basic statuses.
When a user is absent from the system, that is, not authorized, then he automatically receives the status "Offline", that is, offline, in the form of a red flower.
There are also other intermediate statuses.
The “Away” status indicates that the user was not active for 5 minutes (he did not control the mouse and did not press any keys on the keyboard). The status becomes automatically or manually. This gives a signal that the user was absent from the computer. Has an icon -
Busy status - informs that the user has switched to the Away status and from that time he continued to be in an inactive state. As well as the “Out of Office” status, this status can be set both automatically and manually. The status gives a signal that the user has been away from the device for a long time. Has an icon -
You can also disable automatic switching to these statuses "Away" and "Busy" in the program settings.
Previously, there were also Free Talk and Do Not Disturb statuses. Since ICQ4 they were removed, but you can see them on other users who use ICQ versions 2003b and below, as well as on most alternative programs... With the release of the 6th version of ICQ, the ability to set the "Busy" status was returned, but the "Free for conversation" status was removed. Also, in the 6th version, the “Do Not Disturb” and “Busy” statuses are perceived in the same way, that is, only “Busy”.
In addition to these statuses, the user can set a special mode for the account, the invisible mode - "Invisible". Icon - B this mode other users will see the presence status as "offline", and only users whose accounts have been added to the user's visibility list can notify about its activity and see its real status.
There are also extended statuses. There are much more of them than basic statuses.
These statuses show what you are currently doing and where you are. Examples. I want to communicate - At work - I write - I play - On the Internet At home And others.
Additional information status
With the advent of ICQ 5, a small addition was made to the ICQ protocol, which allowed users to have two statuses at the same time - primary and secondary. Users were able to write in the "What's new?" your text statuses. In this case, this status is displayed in the contact list and in the chat window.
Contact list
After a successful connection to its account, the client program downloads the user's contact list from the server. Contacts in the list can be divided into groups and names (their number can be changed by the user).
When adding a contact, authorization is required, that is, to be able to see its presence status and you can send files. For such contacts, an authorization request is made. Then a request comes to the user who wants to add an account in the form of a system message. The authorization request can be answered with consent or refusal, if you wish, you can add a text message to your solution.
The maximum allowed to add 1000 contacts.
Private lists
In order to provide ourselves with the necessary level of confidentiality, ICQ included several lists that perform the necessary functions. The user manages the lists himself, who can enter the necessary Accounts without their notifications.
There are 3 lists in total:
Ignored List - From those caught up in this list no messages are received, they are not shown presence status, except for "Offline". When a contact is added to this list, the user's UIN is automatically removed from the contact list; when removed from this list, it is automatically added. If the contact is not authorized, you will have to make a request again.
Seers list - who are on this list will always see your real status, even if you turn on invisibility mode.
The list of the blind - who are in this list will always show the status "Offline".
Also in these lists is limited maximum amount contacts.
Message exchange
Personal correspondence can be carried out with each of the contacts. If you do not disable the option, then the interlocutor will receive information that I am entering a message. The number of characters in the message is also limited.
If at the time of writing the message the interlocutor is offline, the message will be saved by the service and will be delivered as soon as he connects to the network.
ICQ has a built-in ability to format messages sent, that is, choose a font, font size, change the font color, you can enable the function of writing in italics, bold and underlined, write text from left to right and vice versa from right to left. Also insert emoticons and special Zlango icons and messages into messages.
File upload
Also, ICQ has a built-in file transfer capability that works using Peer-to-peer technology, that is, the transfer is carried out when two computers are connected without the participation of a server. Files can be transferred only when the recipient's presence status is "Online". This method transmission can be dangerous, as the sender learns the recipient's IP address (and vice versa) and can send a file containing viruses. With the advent of ICQ 5, we introduced the ability to send files through the server itself. This will be needed if the ICQ client has determined that a P2P connection cannot be established.
Compatibility
ICQ is limited by compatibility with similar AIM service. AIM users have the ability to add ICQ users to their contact list, and vice versa.
Autumn, 2011. The ICQ included compatibility with the instant messaging service Mail.Ru Agent, which is no less popular in Russia.
ICQ founders from the moment of creation are developed and presented to users free program customer. Currently it is presented in two versions ICQ Lite and ICQ 7M. The program contains banner ads. Look source the client is not allowed.
The ICQ program was founded by Mirabilis. It was given the name ICQ, and all other office clients (except Compad) were named as well.
Official clients have always started with “ICQ” (except for the failed Compad project). Later clients included additional features: sending SMS, video call, IP-telephony, multichat, games and much more
In addition, localized clients have been created, they are supported by local IT companies. These clients in most cases differ from the base name, where the name of the corresponding company is entered. The company is introducing topical for bizarre banner advertisements that will link service accounts to its services (such as mail).
Terms of Use
An ICQ conversation is not personal, i.e. confidential, even if there are two active interlocutors. As stated in the terms of use of the service - for all transmitted information with the participation of the service, the rights are transferred to AOL Inc., in this list and the rights to publish and distribute at its discretion. To use the service means to accept these conditions.
If you accept the rules, then you, as a user, transfer to ICQ Inc. their copyright for the information published using the ICQ service.
You agree that by transferring any document, file or information within ICQ Services, you give copyright and proprietary rights to the added information. In the future, you agree that ICQ Inc. the right to use this information in any form and for any purpose is given, while not being limited to the publication and distribution of this material.
Misuse
ICQ is also used to send advertisements and spam. By registering a new account, the user receives a UIN-number, which is a certain random number from a certain range (before the numbers were received in ascending order). This greatly facilitates the work of listing existing spam address numbers and reduces it to a simple enumeration of a certain range. For most clients, plugins have been created that block messages from bots, i.e. robots. Plugins that ask questions that require a meaningful answer. This is designed to prevent automatically sent messages from reaching the interlocutor.
We came up with several methods of stealing short and beautiful (easy to remember) UIN numbers by some crackers who brute-force the password. Another method is hijacking by a Trojan virus, while pursuing the goal of future resale of the number or extorting money from the previous owner of the UIN. Once upon a time (1996-1997) accounts with six-digit numbers were created, now you can register only eight or nine-digit ICQ numbers... Currently, six-digit and other numbers can be purchased in online stores, with a price from 5 to a couple of thousand dollars, depending on which number.
A bit of history
1996 year. Four high school students from Israel (Tel Aviv), namely Amnon Amir, Yair Goldfinger, Sefi Vigisser and Arik Vardi, created an Internet pager and named it ICQ. Then they created their own company Mirabilis
The client program was distributed, unlike similar ones, for free.
The number of users grew very quickly. Mirabilis offered IM not only to private users, but also to corporate clients.
1988 year. The company was bought by the American corporation AOL for approximately $ 407 million and was donated to Time Warner's ICQ, Incorporated division.
Microsoft tried to entice ICQ users.
First I tried to create an IM protocol that would be more attractive than ICQ
I tried to buy out the company, but the answer came in the negative.
I tried to make the protocols compatible (this would enable ICQ users to correspond with Windows users Messenger). But this could not be done, since the owner of the ICQ indicated different protocols each time.
In the end, Microsoft decided to abandon its idea.
April 2010 DST Investment Fund (co-owner Alisher Usmanov) signed an agreement with AOL on the purchase of the ICQ Internet pager. As a result, this transaction cost about USD 187.5 million.
September 2010 Digital Sky Technologies reorganized and ICQ became part of Mail.Ru Group.
Cracker attacks
August 16 (2010). Using a bot that knows how to communicate, the attackers began to send out a document containing a virus, the purpose of which is to change the password from the UIN number and send the same virus throughout the contact list.
Malfunctions
There have been cases when the media reported server malfunctions. As a result, the service became unavailable for some time.
The ICQ logo and symbol is a flower.
ICQ and its logo are one of the well-known, popular and recognizable brands. The logo is a stylized drawing of a chamomile flower with a yellow disc in the middle and eight petals. Seven petals have green color and one is red.
This figure is used both in the service logo and in the program itself for the visual process of connecting the client to the server, as well as the presence status icon.
In Russia, any ICQ client is assigned the slang name ICQ. The name is a common noun, and, of course, they write with a small letter. Depending on the context, given word means, for example, the same account - "", or UIN - "six-digit asya".
Currently, July 29, 12, ICQ in China is banned for use, but users can use the Chinese counterpart - QQ
Perspectives
According to the data provided by Mail.ru Group, the monthly audience of ICQ around the world from December (2009) to December (2010) decreased by 35% (17.6 million people) and amounted to 33.5 million people. In Russia, by December 2010, the audience amounted to 16.4 million people (decreased by 9% over the year). Mail.ru Group believes that such a sharp drop is due to the strengthening of the fight against spambots, but other representatives of the IT industry disagree. This is also due to the fact that more and more Internet audience prefers to use social networks as communication.