The best way to secure yourself against sniffing is to use encryption. While this wont prevent a sniffer from functioning, it will ensure that what a sniffer reads is pure junk (unreadable text).

Yahoo Messenger does not support encryption. As a result of that, Instant Messaging conversations can be intercepted and logged.

Rocksyhoo (anti-sniffer) provides encryption for Yahoo Messenger. Rocksyhoo will encrypt each message before it is sent and will decrypt that message after it is received on the destination computer. Both users must have installed Rocksyhoo and use the same password established by agreement in private.

IRCFree started originally around 1995 under many other nicknames and project titles. It’s main aim is to develop a fully functional free IRC client for Windows platforms and provide a useful scripting environment.

While providing a similar, compatible interface to IRC (like other leading shareware products) IRCFree will have other extensions and enhancements to open up IRC to a whole new world of features and ideas.

IRCFree is currently BETA software which means that it has passed the “Alpha” (experimentation) stage and is ready for public testing. It should be not treated as a final or commercial product, it’s not.

IceChat can connect to many IRC Servers, has full scripting support and customizable popup menus, and a unique, easy to use Interface. It has emoticon support, skins, Full DCC Support, easy to setup for Multi Servers. IceChat is in constant development, and is aimed at the Beginner to Intermediate IRC User.

This program provides you everything you need to create a chat site. Communicate with friends, family or loved ones over the Internet.

This system tray application allows users to access an AI chatbot. The chatbot follows the user much like a pet.