Tencent claims that Caihong QQ has ever remotely controlled users' computers to send a large amount of information packages, which seriously interfered the normal communication among QQ users. Therefore, "Tencent Corporation had no choice but to take technical measures to curb it."
Morning Post (reported by Zhang Limin) -- The reporter learned from Tencent yesterday that the company will shield the illegal functions of plug-in software, and the resisted functions include "displaying users' IP addresses" and "displaying whether users are invisible" etc.. Some netizens believed that this move mainly targets at the increasingly fierce Caihong QQ plug-in, and even more people disclosed in forums that 51.com was behind Caihong QQ.
Illegal plug-in software usually relies on official versions. For example, regarding the leading product QQ of Tencent, QQ plug-in software can monitor netizens' various online activities in real time, and privacy information such as netizens' friend lists, personal accounts and passwords can be illegally extracted. Manipulators can even carry out viral marketing in the meantime.
A software named "Caihong QQ" is one of the most active QQ plug-ins currently, and it will also become the key target of Tencent's crackdown. It is understood that due to the fact that Caihong QQ developed the functions of "displaying users' IP addresses" and "displaying whether users are invisible", which were suspected of exposing users' privacy, it was shielded by Tencent.