90% of ICQ users have become victimes of a Trojan.
Since yesterday 90% of ICQ users have become victimes of a Trojan. Without asking for authorization and any notice a new user under the name of "ICQ System" and ICQ number 12111 is added to General group. This malicious program adds to the user's password a few of additional characters or stoles it. According to Google search engine user with this ICQ number and user name has affected almost all ICQ users and its actions may differ. Specialists say that he has affected about 99% of users and always appears offline. They recommend to remove yourself from ICQ System list of "user", then to remove it from your list and change the password of you ICQ or QIP.
Google for "ICQ System" or "ICQ: 12111" and see for yourself - the epidemic spread to the entire world - there are many articles about this Trojan written in different languages.
The official ICQ representatives has not yet given any coments regarding this case.
Added:
Official statement from ICQ (http://www.icq.com/help/)
A Message for ICQ Users
a new user from ICQ on your contact list.
As part of the process of upgrading ICQ users to our newest, most advanced version, ICQ6, we have added a new user name to your contact list ''ICQ System''. The newly added user is intended to improve ICQ's line of communication with our users and assure you continue to enjoy talking to everybody, everywhere.
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