# Unwanted ICQ solicitation

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unwanted-icq-solicitation/87222>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [October 13, 2001, 7:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unwanted-icq-solicitation/87222 "2001-10-13T07:47:43Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![OliverTwistofLime](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/b487fb/32.png) [@OliverTwistofLime](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OliverTwistofLime)\
**Post date:** [October 13, 2001, 7:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unwanted-icq-solicitation/87222/1 "2001-10-13T07:47:43Z")

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The icon on the taskbar on my desktop for ICQ flashes. I click it and get a screen with _porn girls_ and Ms Cleo types. This happens several times a day. I have never opened one of these messages …simply close each one only to get several more…I’ve been looking for something to click to stop the messages but there is no place that I can find to stop them. I have a netscape browser and yahoo search engine.

I would appreciate it if someone would spoonfeed me where to look to get rid of these unwanted messages.

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**Author:** ![Geobabe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/geobabe/32/3908_2.png) [@Geobabe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Geobabe)\
**Post date:** [October 13, 2001, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unwanted-icq-solicitation/87222/2 "2001-10-13T14:12:33Z")

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If you click on the “ICQ” button near the lower left of the ICQ front panel, select “Security and privacy” and you will be able to set your options there. You can choose to have only users on your contact list allowed to send you messages.

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**Author:** ![hajario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hajario/32/171_2.png) [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)\
**Post date:** [October 13, 2001, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unwanted-icq-solicitation/87222/3 "2001-10-13T16:31:35Z")

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[Here’s](http://www.somethingawful.com/spam/icq/netappliance/index.htm) a very funny way that one guy deals with ICQ spammers.

Haj