HOW TO SET UP A FIRE WALL ON ICQ. (ALSO THE WAY TO CHANGE/SPOOF YOUR IP# ON ICQ) Steps- 1. First open your ICQ. 2. Now that its opened, but not connected to the net I want you click your "ICQ" button and go up to where it says Prefrences. 3. When the next window comes up, I want you to click the Tab for "Connection" 4. Now I want you to check the circle for- "Im using a permanent internet connection (LAN)" 5. Now check the circle for- "I am behind a fire- wall proxy" 6. Now click the button that says "Firewall settings" 7. When the next window comes up I want you to check the circle that says "Im using a SOCKS 4 proxy" 8. (Optional) you can check the box that says "Firewall sessions time out after, and choose after how many seconds your firewall will go off. (I never really use this) 9. Click the button "next" 10. Where it says SOCKS 4 HOST, there you can put any IP # you want, OR you can put a specific IP so that it is a "firewall" 11. Where it says SOCKS 4 PORT, this must ALWAYS! be 4000. 12. Now make sure the circle for "Open an outgoing UDP port 4000 on my firewall" 13. Click the "next" button. 14. By now you should have a menu up that says "check my firewall/proxy settings" so click that button. (You must be connected to the net, but your ICQ must be "offline") 15. Where it says "status" and the comes up saying "Success" now click the button that says "DONE" 16. Then click the button "OKAY" 17. Now just connect to ICQ, 18. Click the ICQ button, go up to "(UN)Register/ Listings" then goto "View/Change my listings" If you did everything correctly your new IP # should read what ever you put. IMPORTANT NOTES!!!- When your firewall is up, that makes it very difficult for you as well as your friends to send you ICQ messages and in order to do so, when you send a message, you must wait untill it comes up saying "could not send directly" and click the button marked "send through server" Also when your fire wall is up, you cannot- do file transfers, chat, or send a URL over ICQ. To do those three things you must NOT have a firewall up. TO TAKE YOUR FIREWALL OFF- Steps- 1. Click the ICQ button and goto prefrences. 2. Click the connection tab. 3. Now just click the circle "I am using a modem (or any other dial up device)" 4. Click the "okay" button 5. You may need to disconnect, then reconnect ICQ in order for your settings to take place. NOTE!- If your not sure if your firewall is off, just click the ICQ button, go up to "(UN)Register/Listings" then goto "View/Change my listings" If you did everything correctly your OLD IP # should read what ever you put. GOOD IP #'S TO USE- 0.0.0.0 Use this if you want your IP # to come up blank. 7.7.7.7 I use this for my ICQ UIN of Dbl_0_Se7en (downloaded from http://zap.to/cyberhack made by the deadman.. you can mail me at deadman99_@hotmail.com)