Plugins for ICQ may be developed by third parties and may be harmful and cause extreme damage to your system.
By downloading, installing, activating or using any Plugin for ICQ developed or provided by third parties, you may be subject to various immediate and long-term risks, including without limitation:
- Exposure to objectionable material and/or parties, including without limitation, contaminated files.
- Unauthorized invasion of your privacy during, or as a result of, your or another's use of the Plugin.
- Spoofing, eavesdropping, sniffing, spamming, breaking passwords, harassment, fraud, forgery, "imposturing", electronic trespassing, tampering, hacking, nuking, system contamination including without limitation use of viruses, worms and Trojan horses causing unauthorized, damaging or harmful access and/or retrieval of information and data on your computer and other forms of activity that may even be considered unlawful.
- Unauthorized exposure of information and material you listed or sent, on or through the ICQ system, to other users, the general public or any other specific entities for which the information and material was not intended by you.
If you do not wish to be subjected to these risks, you are strongly advised not to download, install, activate or use Plugins for ICQ that were developed or provided by third parties.
Some Plugins for ICQ were developed by ICQ Inc. To review the list of ICQ Plugins developed by ICQ Inc., please refer to the Plugins for ICQ Center available on or through http://www.icq.com/plugins/.
