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Gaim is a multi-protocol instant messaging (IM) client for Linux, BSD, MacOS X, and Windows. It is compatible with AIM and ICQ (Oscar protocol), MSN Messenger, Yahoo!, IRC, Jabber, Gadu-Gadu, and Zephyr networks.
Gaim users can log in to multiple accounts on multiple IM networks simultaneously. This means that you can be chatting with friends on AOL Instant Messenger, talking to a friend on Yahoo Messenger, and sitting in an IRC channel all at the same time.
Gaim supports many features of the various networks, such as file transfer (coming soon), away messages, typing notification, and MSN window closing notification. It also goes beyond that and provides many unique features. A few popular features are Buddy Pounces, which give the ability to notify you, send a message, play a sound, or run a program when a specific buddy goes away, signs online, or returns from idle; and plugins, consisting of text replacement, a buddy ticker, extended message notification, iconify on away, and more.
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Display Picture Exporter allows you to export your MSN Messenger display pictures, either individually or save all to a certain folder while retaining the original filenames. Supported formats are: PNG, BMP, GIF, JPG
The transcript for the technical chat on July 13, 2004 is now published at the Windows XP Export Zone. The next one is scheduled for October 20, 2004 at 1:00 P.M. Pacific Time, make sure you don’t miss it by finding out what time that is in your time zone at timeanddate.com
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This is a standard compiled patch of the source in the article Editing MSN Messenger to show idle statuses. The article does contain a compiled version, but is very informal and because of the popularity of the article, I am releasing this. Make sure you exit MSN Messenger completely, it will not warn you if it can’t patch because it is still running (I know, not very formal…)
Komrade has reported a vulnerability in Trillian, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user’s system.
The vulnerability is caused due to a boundary error within the MSN module. This can be exploited to cause a buffer overflow by passing an overly long string (about 4096 bytes) from a MSN messenger server.
Successful exploitation requires that a malicious person either intercepts and manipulates traffic sent from a MSN messenger server to the user or get the user's Trillian to connect to a malicious MSN messenger server.
The vulnerability has been reported in version 0.74i. Other versions may also be affected.