ICQ

Messaging History- really useful app for me!

MacUpdate Admins - it's time to BAN this software. The U.S. gov't, the UK gov't, etc., have all said this is Russian spyware!!!!!!!!!

Google now alerts you if you log in with this software as a potential security threat. About damned time.

Who uses this anymore???

RUSSIAN SYWARE! Do NOT use - you would be out of your mind to put this crap on your machine! Read the other reviews, read the various online reports - AVOID !!

I personally would NOT use ICQ for professional purposes. There is plenty of evidence that Russian authorities have been able to collect data from it for prosecutorial purposes. Also, its website programming is a mess, which doesn't bode well for the app. On some Mac hardware it has a reputation for crashing. Obviously, justified paranoia will continue on into the future. - - HOWEVER: • It's entirely Open Source. • 'ICQ New', referring to the current version, offers what it calls 'End-to-End Encryption. • It's currently attempting to compete with Zoom for video conferencing. • It still Apple approved. • This version does not contain any known malware, I personally checked. • It continues to be popular on both Mac and iOS in much of the world. - - CONCLUSION: Do NOT do any critical work using ICQ. Despite its claims, don't expect it to be entirely private. ⭐ But for casual use, it continues to be fine and innocuous.

I personally would NOT use ICQ for professional purposes. There is plenty of evidence that Russian authorities have been able to collect data from it for prosecutorial purposes. Also, its website programming is a mess, which doesn't bode well for the app. On some Mac hardware it has a reputation for crashing. - - HOWEVER: • It's entirely Open Source. • 'ICQ New', referring to the current version, offers what it calls 'End-to-End Encryption. • It's currently attempting to compete with Zoom for video conferencing. • It still Apple approved. • This version does not contain any known malware, I personally checked. • It continues to be popular on both Mac and iOS is much of the world. - - CONCLUSION: Do NOT do any critical work using ICQ. Despite its claims, don't expect it to be entirely private. ⭐ But for casual use, it continues to be fine and innocuous. Obviously, justified paranoia will continue on into the future.

AVOID. WARNING. Despite several attempts to get MacUpdate to REMOVE all listings for ICQ since it became Russian spyware, they keep listing it. READ all recent technical evaluations of it so you get the picture of what is going on with this software NOW. DO NOT INSTALL!!!

MacUpdate Admins! Did you see the news report last week REQUIRING that Russian Federation citizens install this software on their computers? It has been totally re-written by RF gov't officials and is no longer safe to use. ICQ is now MALWARE and should be delisted from MacUpdate!!!

I can only share that this 'application' stopped to have a meaning like almost all the chats by the time the profiles are practically banned and there is no more any search engine to find who could match, in location, interest, school, age or whatever that can describe person BUT listen here the PARANOIDS who are SO MUCH PARANOID to 'feel safe' using u.s.a. 'applications' goes ahead the ridicolous and falls in the pathology!

Хотите, что бы ваши данные сливались напрямую в ФСБ? И поверх самого приложения была куча не нужной ерунды? - тогда смело можно пользоваться этой поделкой. ICQ - RIP в 2010 году. ((

ICQ is an Israeli developed software, changed few hands over time and now owned by a Russian Company. Contrary to well known spyware giants like Google, Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest and many other american spy-cartels, not a single Hi-Tech software company in Russia has ever spied on anybody. The accusations posted here are false, fake. Even if some of Russian HiTech companies were involved in data mining, it was done internally in Russia, and on very specific companies, which has been very normal in the last 100 years spying on your competitors, all around the world.

DO NOT USE. MacUpdate keeps listing this despite so many user warnings.

Again-BEWARE. This product was exposed several times in the media as being exploited (aka spying) by the Putin-regime's government of the Russian Federation. DO NOT USE.

A huge no-no! This is screaming at any user: SPYWARE! The Russian government has been shown in the press to be using this application to spy on businesses and private communications of 'important' people. DO NOT INSTALL!

Nobody with any level of responsibility should be installing Russian or Chinese applications, it's far too dangerous. MacUpdate should help us in this regard by indicating (as best as possible) the country of origin associated with software listings.

MACUPDATE ADMINS - considering how this app was mentioned in several newpaper stories of being used by the Putin regime to track/spy - shouldn't this be declared malware and just banned?

Isn’t surprising to see applications (once ‘programs) fall behind the startng point at their birth, like Skype (now a not funny joke, compared at what was version 2.8)and this one, or fallen in the oblivion of a fulgid past, like Yahoo, the total disaster and failure caused by a heap of bigots who were fighting any kind of acquaintance between users (like NOW icq (I will write it again caoitalized when it will DESERVE it!) and Skype, leaving to Facebook the monopole of the socials? Now the name itself lost totally its original meaning because, even if You Seek Him,… you will never FIND him, now that any search between users is impossible! By the way, even here nobody cares about this 'fake-ICQ', such a shame for who is already disgusted by Skype's lost of any dignity!

still: "An error occurred in retrieving update information. Please try again later."

Facebook chat???? I don't think so; there is no way to add a Facebook contact like on Trillian!