Can someone please help me with ICQ?

I am using tails and I cannot get ICQ to work with pidgin. I signed up at icq got my UI and used that as my username. I used irc.freenode.net.

Does tails have everything setup automatically with proxies etc? Because some guides say to turn off use remote DND with socks 4 proxies in Tools---->Preferences--->Proxy

The error message that I am getting is " *********@freenode.irc.net disabled. Your selected account was probably rejected by the server. It probably contains invalid characters"

When i change the server to irc.icq.com it gives me a new message - "Z-lined, tor exit servers detected"

Can anyone help me solve this? I am at my wits end. There is a seller on evolution who only uses ICQ with OTR enabled and I want to to be able to chat with him.

PS the default kribekie@irc.oftc.net works fine. But the kribekie@127.0.0.1 does not and gives error message "Unable to connect, general socks failure"

Can I use first kribekie one to communicate with the vendor? IRC peeps can chat with ICQ peeps right?

Thanks a lot


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[1 Points] aalewis____:

ICQ and IRC are completely different protocols
And you don't have to mess with the proxy settings at all. This is where you need to be at http://i.imgur.com/ovwzpeD.png