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. Source: http://www.blog.haljava.com/comment_1213951027.html
"According to information received from Yarik Goldfinger, No. 12111 will soon be used to fight against spam. When receiving spam user to copy the text of advertising messages, as well as the numbers from which came spam, and send a complaint to the bot ICQ System (12111). When the critical mark of negative feedback status of those is reached the numbers will change to UNREGISTERED. They are currently debugging the new service. Yarik calls for the observance of calm, not to open files sent supposedly struggling with the problem. The company AOL and personally Yarik Goldfinger of ICQ apologizes to the users for any inconvenience." http://www.asechka.ru/