COMMAND

    ICQ

SYSTEMS AFFECTED

    ICQ99a Beta

PROBLEM

    Flaming Dog found  following.  This  bug was tested  on Windows 95
    and  with  ICQ  version  99a  build  #1700.   The guess is that it
    affects all versions of 99.   While playing with the personal  web
    server that is built  into ICQ99, FD just  had an amazing urge  to
    break it.  Basically, if you  put 300 periods onto the end  of the
    address for your ICQ homepage.  Example follows.

    You have the ICQ webserver running and you enter

        http://209.37.153.39/...................(and so on..../

    into Netscape, and ICQ will crash.  Another guess is that since it
    crashes ICQ, but not the webserver, is that if you do the same  to
    the ICQ  homepages that  are stored  on http://members.icq.com, it
    will also crash. (granted they have the page stored there)

SOLUTION

    ICQ99 build #1800 release supposedly fixes this DoS attack.