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Back in the pre-SMS days, http://www.trillian.im/ Trillian did this nicely. You would think there would be an app to combine all as well. Couldn't be that hard if it's been done once before.

I get my security information for a few different places.

First off i like to monitor two RSS feeds in perticular. The are both seclists.org lists. The first one being Full Disclosure, and Bugtraq.

I have used trillian for my IM'ing needs for a while now and found a nifty addon called Good News to monitor all of my those feeds. So i get a nice toast every 15 minutes are so with all the most recent entries to those lists.

Another place i like to monitor are some of the exploit site out there to see whats being publicly posted for the skids to download. One such site is exploit-db. A single google search can yield a few more.

Ontop of that i like to check up on the twitter accounts of many of the high profile professionals from time to time.

If i find something in any of these places that pertains to my setup i immediately take action. Sometimes that means taking services offline until a patch can be applied. What i have learned is that once you put a service out ontop the public network from your own home IP, there is a new found respect for the security of you network. Keeping that in the back of my mind helps me stay proactive on my approach to the matter.

I've been happy with Trillian.

http://www.trillian.im/android/

Trillian for Android (Beta)

Except, umm, I use my ICQ UID directly on AIM with iChat... oops.

iChat is an instant messaging program that that can support AIM, ICQ, MSN, Yahoo and Google Talk. Unless I'm mistaken, iChat is just using the needed settings to chat with between them. Other programs like Trillian does this as well that I know of.

Trillian Astra: http://trillian.im/

-Stays connected
-Supports file transfer
-Communicates with AIM from ICQ
-No ads
-Multiple options for what happens with new chat windows (show on desktop, show minimized, hide and notify via systray, with an additional "always show on top" toggle)

All ICQ-specific features: http://www.trillian.im/learn/tour-features.html#ICQ

Trillian Astra: http://trillian.im/

-Stays connected
-Supports file transfer
-Communicates with AIM from ICQ
-No ads
-Multiple options for what happens with new chat windows (show on desktop, show minimized, hide and notify via systray, with an additional "always show on top" toggle)

All ICQ-specific features: http://www.trillian.im/learn/tour-features.html#ICQ

There's no Linux client, but Trillian for Windows. Appears that an OSX version is in development. It supports: Astra, AIM, Yahoo!, ICQ. Windows Live (MSN), MySpaceIM, Google Talk, Jabber/XMPP, Facebook, Twitter, Skype, Bonjour, IRC, POP3 Mail, IMAP Mail

Also, Trillian Astra, which is free but not open-source. Available for Windows, with Mac and iPhone versions currently in beta. You have to pay to get the Pro features (mostly managing IM history), but it's still a solid piece of software. Everyone gets a month of Pro for trial purposes.