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Windows Communicator - chatting at home on your LAN
review from ClifNotes, Mar 2007, permalink Instant Messaging
I've been trying out chat applications that work on my home network for a couple of years now. This one is the best I've found so far. It has tons of features and it even has a battleship game you can play over a network. I also had fun grabbing remote screenshots from my wife's PC while she was chatting with me.
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Quote from the website
Windows Communicator - universal chat client,based on ICQ and IRC functionality and solutions. Application can work on Local Area Networks as well as over the Internet.
Basic application functions:
- sending public messages
- private chat
- private message
- secure channels
- remote screenshot
- remote execution
- list running application
- remote shutdown/reboot/logoff/wake up
- other
Note : Each of listed above spy functions may be blocked by users.
http://www.communicator.pl/