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32220	2002-01-21 18:38:00	My ICQ runs fine for maybe 20 minutes or so, but then it starts to slow and eventually the connection is dropped. If I reconnect the time online becomes shorter each time before disconnecting. The browsers (IE and NS) and MSN do not do this, they continue to work fine. I'm running Win 98 on an 800Mhz Celeron with 129Mb RAM. I had no problems with ICQ on my old machine, 133Mhz with 32Mb RAM! Any ideas on a resolution much appreciated.	Guest (0)
32221	2002-01-21 23:12:00	The problem won't be the speed of your machine. SOmething is chewing your bandwidth when you're connected to ICQ. Someone may be trying to hack you through ICQ and over a modem connection you don't have the bandwidth to spare. Are you using a firewall? If not try http://www.tinysoftware.co.uk for a free one	Guest (0)
32222	2002-01-22 00:03:00	Thanks Gerard for the suggestion. I am running Norton Internet Security 2002 which incorporates a firewall and it's all switched on. Indeed a pop-up window shows whenever there is an attempt hack - and that is not infrequent, but I have not noticed it during recent ICQ sessions. Previously I used ZoneAlarm, but canned that when I bought NIS a few weeks ago. Maybe I should try closing down everything but ICQ?	Guest (0)
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