Seek out friends and colleagues on the Internet with the latest version of this megapopular chat pro
One of the internet's first instant messengers, that has evolved into a personal communications center: ICQ allows you to exchange files, chat, send SMS to many cellular networks around the world, send and check email, keep records of your messages, exchange web addresses and more.
What's new in this version:
Improvements since version 3.2
Interoperability with AIM and iChat instant messengers. You can add users from those messengers to your Contact List and exchange instant messages with them. Better peer to peer connectivity: MacICQ now supports passive p2p connections for users behind firewalls. Users behind firewalls can now choose their listen port range. Auto-reconnect (available in the Connection panel of the Network and Security window). Users with...
I would agree that it has a lot of settings, but doesn't this provide a good customization? Some of my friends do enjoy the fact that this messenger has several skins to suit your taste and different sounds to be used. In general it works smoothly and is quite enjoyable to chat in.
It is comfortable to use. Yes, you have to set the settings once, but then you enjoy its work.
Don't use much of this IM client: it's too complicated for me to look for my way thrpough the wilderness ad thicket of all those tabs and all ythose settings I don't want to bother to configure. On the other hand, if you install this program onto your computer, there'll be nothing to be sorry about, cause it works just the way you'd like an IM client work. Still, the amount of spambots in it is really astonishing, so watch out for ones!