Active Internet users know that most sites or forums require a registration procedure to use all the services and functions provided. And when registering in the ICQ messenger, along with the password, you also need to enter a secret question. What if the password was lost, and the answer to the secret question turned out to be incorrect? You can restore access to your account in several ways.
The first method is the most logical and simple, but it assumes that the e-mail address to which the ICQ account was linked is known. On the page of the password recovery service, you need to enter this email address, and then confirm the request by correctly filling in the captcha (numbers or letters from the picture), which is a kind of protection against hacker bots guessing passwords from user accounts. The user's mail within 5-10 minutes should receive a message from the ICQ password recovery service. If this does not happen, you need to check the correctness of the specified address and the settings of the spam filter. The message may have been automatically sorted and ended up in your spam folder. It is worth noting that users of the Rambler mail service get a fairly tangible advantage, since they can simply go to their own mailbox and change the password right there. If recovery via email is impossible (they have not used the mailbox for a long time, the access password is lost, etc.), you can try use one of the special programs to recover the password for the ICQ messenger. This method is seductive, but it has its own pitfalls. Such software is collected by developers, whose activities are often highly questionable. There are enough cases when, under the guise of password recovery and access to the ICQ program, a user account was "hijacked" by cybercriminals for their own selfish purposes. As practice shows, the most ineffective method is the use of a program that analyzes all computer hard drives and collects system information related to with verified user passwords. The process of detecting passwords itself is very slow, and most importantly, it does not at all guarantee you recovery of your ICQ account. This method is best used when all other methods have failed.
