Quiet Internet Pager (QIP ) – is a freeware instant messaging on the protocol OSCAR, in many respects is similar to the program ICQ. QIP – is an ICQ-client with closed source, designed to work under the family of operating systems Microsoft Windows. From 2010 comes as QIP 2010.

Additional

* Protection from spam and flooding from those who are not included in user’s contact list. Protection is provided in the form of questions and comparison of the answers with given ones. In this way it becomes possible with high probability to determine if it is a robot or a living person. If the answer is correct, then the message from this number (UIN) is accepted.

* More opportunities in settings as compared with the official client.

* “All-Seeing Eye” – This feature allows you to see who added you to their contact-list who have read your status message, and all other service packages from users who are not in your contact-list (formerly, perhaps, an “eye” displays numbers of those who view your personal data).

* View the IP-addresses of the interlocutor (depending on client settings), the protection of their IP from the view (function send / receive files is disabled by default – applying these opportunities, IP-address becomes known, as a user gets warning message).

* Ability to attach the messenger window to the screen on the “button” so that it could not move or hide behind other windows.

* Portable use – QIP can be stored and run from flash media on other computers.

* “Hot Keys” that can be reassigned and must be activated separately, in particular:
o function of the “anti-boss”, which allows to remove from the screen window QIP, as well as the icon from the panel.
o Transliteration of the selected part of the message, as well as correction of the text typed in the wrong layout (where instead of Russian “привет” (hello)” is obtained «ghbdtn»).