Date: March 8th, 2001
Time: n/a
Venue:On your own ICQ program

ICQ isn't totally free for users. ICQ added a banner under your message box and othes.
This banner offers nothing but Advertisements!
Getting annoy with it?

Here's the way to remove it :

Precaustion : Make sure you have get the ICQCORE.DLL backup!

1)  Make sure your ICQ program is not running when you apply these      onto ICQ.
2)  delete icqateres.dll,icqateimg32.dll,icqateima32.dll.So that      ICQ cannot locate it
3)  Finally,get a modified ICQCORE.DLL and replace with current DLL      file.
4)  Yet, you can modify in the registry to ensure it will not update      behind the scene.

This method work for ICQ Version 2000b Beta v.4.63 Build #3279 ONLY!