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ICQ athorisation denied spam #27

Closed GoogleCodeExporter closed 9 years ago

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
Recently I started to get "Authorisation denied" ICQ spam messages from random 
users not in my contact list. Currently all ICQ authorisation requests are 
disabled in plugin settings, but unsolicited deny replies still come through, 
leading to annoying popup window. Is it possible to block them?

I'm using pidgin-2.8.0 and pidgin-privacy-please from trunk.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by lwarxx@gmail.com on 23 Oct 2011 at 5:55

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
Hi

Could you please verify whether this still happens with the current version of 
pidgin and pidgin-privacy-please?

Also, sorry for the delay.

Original comment by ste...@ott.net on 20 Mar 2012 at 2:56

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
I switched to OS X and Adium, but I can leave my Linux machine on for several 
days to catch these unwanted messages. Can not guarantee reproducibility 
though, because it depends on spammers activity. It will be helpful if you know 
a way to trigger this message using another ICQ account.

Anyway, I will report back in a few days.

Original comment by lwarxx@gmail.com on 20 Mar 2012 at 3:23

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
Awesome, thanks. I will try to find a way to trigger the messages but so far I 
failed. I haven't been using ICQ a lot lately, guess I should turn it on if I'm 
writing a plugin like this one :)

Original comment by ste...@ott.net on 20 Mar 2012 at 3:37

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
Patch to pidgin (unaccepted): http://developer.pidgin.im/ticket/14686

Also it looks like ability to send auth deny messages was fixed server-side 
some time ago: http://iicq.ru/news/spam-authorization/ (russian citation of ICQ 
representative).

Original comment by lwarxx@gmail.com on 20 Mar 2012 at 3:51

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
It looks like the issue has been fixed either server-side or in 
pidgin/libpurple. For last six days my open pidgin instance received no 
unwanted messages, so I think this ticket can be closed.

Original comment by lwarxx@gmail.com on 26 Mar 2012 at 6:23

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
Great, thanks for investigating. I'll mark it as invalid since it wasn't really 
an issue with the plugin.

Original comment by ste...@ott.net on 27 Mar 2012 at 1:01