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As we can all remember the hay-day of ICQ most Warez hounds praised Mirabilis for their amazing work on a fantastic App. However Mirabilis got greedy and went to AOL for support and now they load us with a program that has useless options and worst of all BANNER ADS. When the official release of ICQ 2000a/b came out I was happy thinking it would be an improvement to 99 however what disappointment I had when I found out the garbage they had shoved in to the program. I at once noticed a few .dll files that seemed had no real reason of being but later I found out their true nature BANNERS. Well enough is enough I noticed a few Warez sites having a ICQ banner removing program I didn’t trust it after all ICQ being my #1 source of communication I didn’t want a group of guys playing around with it so I just did a little research. Any way ON TO ………………… Removing ICQ Banners a Friendly Guide From BLAKRAIN Find the following .dll files in your ICQ directory and rename them to .bak: (if u r unsure DO NOT CONTIUNE I have done this already) icqateima32.dll becomes icqateima32.bak icqateimg32.dll becomes icqateimg32.bak icqateres.dll becomes icqateres.bak These changes should stop the banner and pop up from appearing. And u should get a msg window like so…\

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I don't even notice the banners anymore to be honest. It's probably worth noting though, that other methods I've seen (invoved fiddling with the system reg if I remember correctly) remove the banner area completly, rather than just the image as in the above example.

update: just rememberd, I think it was the same as the above example, except you also went into the registry and changed to values which gave the bottom window a height of 0 pixels or something. Can't remember where I saw it tho.

Geez there is so much of an easier way!

Providing you have 2000b and the right build version, I just run a small effective 1.7MB exe patch made by TNT cracking group, that does everything including:

• Removes unsightly ads & banners
  
• Lets you add people without authorisation
  
• Lets you view people in Invisible mode
  
• Allows you to view anyones IP address
  

Great stuff I've been using it for ages!

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Originally posted by Paul Griffiths 1 Geez there is so much of an easier way! Providing you have 2000b and the right build version, I just run a small effective 1.7MB exe patch made by TNT cracking group, that does everything including: Removes unsightly ads & banners Lets you add people without authorisation Lets you view people in Invisible mode Allows you to view anyones IP address Great stuff I've been using it for ages!

sounds like ur a hacker m8. hehe.

and with that crack, its the only one i have found that works... so far. Im gonna have a bash @ the reg tonite and see what i find and post it if i get it. coz i knew this existed but never knew. anyhoo i might make a quick program that does all this automatically if we find out .

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Originally posted by DjTS-NeXiLe sounds like ur a hacker m8. hehe. and with that crack, its the only one i have found that works... so far. Im gonna have a bash @ the reg tonite and see what i find and post it if i get it. coz i knew this existed but never knew. anyhoo i might make a quick program that does all this automatically if we find out .

lol more like a script kiddie.. check my thread from eeh.. ages ago.. had the same banner removal Way easier to do 2...

sorry m8 old news But hey congrats on finding it on yr own lol

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paul can u post up a link to that proggie, sounds fun!

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Originally posted by Henkie_henk lol more like a script kiddie.. check my thread from eeh.. ages ago.. had the same banner removal Way easier to do 2... sorry m8 old news But hey congrats on finding it on yr own lol

what??? man, its just that i tried to use some fucked up crack ages ago and it never worked... its just this method is really quick and it works straight away. !

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Dude thanx for the info...I've found those banners annoying frm Day One...

Although...Paul,I can use that crak frm TNT...none of the gals on my list seem to be online whenever i come online...

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Originally posted by DjTS-NeXiLe sounds like ur a hacker m8. hehe.

lol...nah I'm not that type. I don't know a single thing about hacking...I'd love to learn how it's done, but I'd never apply it in the real world. It's pretty rude otherwise.

i just removed it like 6 months ago deleting 3 *.DLL

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Originally posted by DjTS-NeXiLe what??? man, its just that i tried to use some fucked up crack ages ago and it never worked... its just this method is really quick and it works straight away. !

It worked 4 me

http://www.geocities.com/rwonl/IcQFuCkYou.html

here ya go...

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Originally posted by Henkie_henk It worked 4 me http://www.geocities.com/rwonl/IcQFuCkYou.html here ya go...

Thats the one that didnt work for me !

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