After arguing with myself for a few minutes deciding wether or not to give the 31337 hax0rs of the world a way to crash ICQ99, I came to the decision that I dont care. This bug was tested on windows95 and with ICQ version 99a build #1700. My guess is that it affects all versions of 99. While playing with the personal web server that is built into ICQ99, I just had an amazing urge to break it. Basically, I put 300 periods onto the end of the address for my ICQ homepage. Example: I have the ICQ webserver running and I enter "http://209.37.153.39/...................(and so on..../" into Netscape, and ICQ crashed. I am going to test this further tonight and will update this some more. Another guess is that since it crashes ICQ, but not the webserver, is that if you do the same to the ICQ homepages that are stored on http://members.icq.com, it will also crash. (granted they have the page stored there) _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
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