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Trillian blighted by security bug trio

Feef Lovecraft

Stripping 

Posted Friday 23rd May 2008 11:38 GMT

Paris Hilton

Can you not just do what I do and run it with the font stripping on so it never passes you any [Font] tags?

Paris because she'd love to strip.

Hate2Register

Gives us something to chat about.. 

Posted Friday 23rd May 2008 11:38 GMT

Although Trillian users are a bit like ICQ users - they are all like my dad. So a bit of porno-disguised malware will probably go unnoticed.

TimM

Just use a Mac... no, Linux... erm! 

Posted Friday 23rd May 2008 11:58 GMT

Joke

What! A security fuss that isn't to do with Microsoft.

Still, surely we can bleat on about Macs and Linux being better can't we?

;-)

J-Wick

Why are people using Trillian, anyway... 

Posted Friday 23rd May 2008 12:11 GMT

Linux

...instead of Pidgin?

(Not flamebait. Just curious. Should really browse the Trillian website & look at features, but can't be arsed.)

Tux cos am a recent convert. Not 100% yet, though!

Chris Cheale

with regards to pidgin 

Posted Friday 23rd May 2008 13:03 GMT

simply because I'd never heard of it - I wouldn't use Trillian either but for the fact that I know a couple of peeps that use MSN.

I'm probably like that geezer above's dad since I'd otherwise be using ICQ [it's a legacy thing] - when I actually use IM at all. A "chat" program to an aging misanthropic goth is akin to a bicycle for a fish.

Anonymous Coward

@pidgin fan 

Posted Friday 23rd May 2008 14:21 GMT

...............err because pidgin sucks? Miranda/Kopete for me.

Anonymous Coward

Re: Pidgin 

Posted Friday 23rd May 2008 14:21 GMT

Flame

I wouldn't use Pidgin as its developed by a bunch of ego-centric idiots that don't care about their userbase and like to dictate how things should be rather than actually trying to be useful.

Anonymous Coward

Re: Pidgin... 

Posted Friday 23rd May 2008 15:57 GMT

... Why? Trillian Pro has a perfectly usable interface. It's not too bad... it hasn't quite kept up with all the extra guff that comes with the latest and greatest IM clients, but it's perfectly usable for what I need it for.

J-Wick

Pidgin vs. Trillian... 

Posted Friday 23rd May 2008 21:12 GMT

Dead Vulture

Hmm.. Trillian does look interesting - used it a while ago. Kopete looks ok. Horses for courses, I suppose, and you stick with what you're used to. I'm slowly moving to Ubuntu (cue collective eye-roll), hence I'd need a tux-friendly client.

Though what does make Pidgin suck, and how do the developers dictate how things should be rather than trying to be useful? Do you have any examples? What do your IM clients do better than Pidgin? I'd be interested to know - I may end up changing :)

Dead bird, obvious choice really :)

Anonymous Coward

Pidgin 

Posted Monday 26th May 2008 08:09 GMT

We had problems at work with people using MSN (they shouldn't do), looked at Pidgin - but decided not to go with offering it work wide (academic sector) because it stores the login information for the profiles in plain text.

Encrypt that login information and we'll look again.

Erik Aamot

g33z3 ?! ... 

Posted Tuesday 27th May 2008 02:21 GMT

just caus my ICQ # is 8069*** running 2002a and my Trillian version 0.73 ??

XML .. pffffffft ..

learn to write HTML 4.01 .. ok ?, this website looks like crap 1/2 the time

Anonymous Coward

Why install? 

Posted Tuesday 27th May 2008 20:29 GMT

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