Kyle Posted October 25, 2009 Report Share Posted October 25, 2009 QQ, without a doubt is the main instant messaging platform used in China. Until earlier this year, the English version was outdated.When visting the link below, McAfee SiteAdvisor will show up red, signaling that there might be something fishy with the program download. Being somewhat curious though, I went a head and downloaded it, ran it through my AV program (Kaspersky) before installing it, as well as ran a full system scan afterward - no issues were found.One thing I really like about the QQ program, is that the international version is just the chat client, not the entire QQ suite (which contained a bunch of crap that ultimately bogged down your computer). Tencent seemed to get take the hint with this release.Once nice function is the screen capture function when using video chat (they also have audio calling w/o video). I would suspect that all of you guys/gals whose spouse/fiance are separated by the big pond, could find applicable uses for it (ie. presenting it with your chat/call logs. It also keeps a detailed history log.One note:Registering for a QQ number was a pain the butt for me. My wife did it though her Chinese version. No problems. If you run into busy servers, you can always have your fiance/spouse register one for you.http://www.imqq.com/download.shtml Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RobertH Posted October 25, 2009 Report Share Posted October 25, 2009 (edited) Link to it please. She is always on QQ......Lol Never mind I just seen the link..... Edited October 25, 2009 by RobertH (see edit history) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RobertH Posted October 25, 2009 Report Share Posted October 25, 2009 Gah.... server always busy tried like 8 times.... Is there a good time of day to try? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kyle Posted October 25, 2009 Author Report Share Posted October 25, 2009 (edited) I had the same issue - get your fiance to get one for you. I hate the way they make you retype everything in if their server is busy. Very annoying! I just downloaded it this evening (China time), about three hours ago, so I'm uncertain if one time is better than another. Past QQ English versions, had the same issue though. I think with the old QQ 2004 English version, I also had to get my wife to help me register. Edited October 25, 2009 by KJJ (see edit history) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RobertH Posted October 25, 2009 Report Share Posted October 25, 2009 I was able to reg using the Email option. Got a QQ # still looking at it cant find chat rooms with people in them to talk to. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dnoblett Posted October 25, 2009 Report Share Posted October 25, 2009 One thing I have noticed about the newer version is it displays Chinese without needing to be tricked into thinking it is running on Chinese windows. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest jin979 Posted October 26, 2009 Report Share Posted October 26, 2009 QQ is full of trojens, be careful Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kyle Posted October 26, 2009 Author Report Share Posted October 26, 2009 (edited) QQ is full of trojens, be careful Ummm perhaps so perhaps not. As with any IM software, this could be an issue - but it can be easily avoided using common sense. Do what I did and it won't be a problem. Set your QQ to not accept any files (file transfers). I also set up permissions on who could add me and who couldn't. There are setting you can use to make it much more private and secure, ie. disable automatic updating. The software itself is clean. It's how you use it that causes problems. Once again, this is only the QQ chat program, not the QQ suite which does download a lot of crap to your computer. This download does not install Tencent browser, etc. . . Edited October 26, 2009 by KJJ (see edit history) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
david_dawei Posted October 26, 2009 Report Share Posted October 26, 2009 One thing I really like about the QQ program, is that the international version is just the chat client, not the entire QQ suite (which contained a bunch of crap that ultimately bogged down your computer). Tencent seemed to get take the hint with this release. Once nice function is the screen capture function when using video chat (they also have audio calling w/o video). I would suspect that all of you guys/gals whose spouse/fiance are separated by the big pond, could find applicable uses for it (ie. presenting it with your chat/call logs. It also keeps a detailed history log.This is great to see another version available... But all the features you mention are in QQ2009 (which I use)... I did download and install the Int'l version and not seeing too much different from what I already use but I'll use it for now. thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dnoblett Posted October 26, 2009 Report Share Posted October 26, 2009 One thing I really like about the QQ program, is that the international version is just the chat client, not the entire QQ suite (which contained a bunch of crap that ultimately bogged down your computer). Tencent seemed to get take the hint with this release. Once nice function is the screen capture function when using video chat (they also have audio calling w/o video). I would suspect that all of you guys/gals whose spouse/fiance are separated by the big pond, could find applicable uses for it (ie. presenting it with your chat/call logs. It also keeps a detailed history log.This is great to see another version available... But all the features you mention are in QQ2009 (which I use)... I did download and install the Int'l version and not seeing too much different from what I already use but I'll use it for now. thanks.Yep QQ2009 is the version we are using, I simply un-checked every option that it suggested installing, and just installed the messenger. I like KJJ other suggestions to secure the program. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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