As much as I hate it, QQ is a bit of a must have in China as most Chinese people don’t use Facebook or MSN to communicate online. However, rather than installing and running yet another IM application on my computer, I realised that Pidgin provides fairly good support for the QQ protocol – which means that I can access all my IM services from one application (Facebook, XiaoNei, Pidgin, Gmail, Hotmail, QQ) hence speeding up my computer a bit. In fact, the current Linux version of QQ lacks a lot of features, is fairly buggy and doesn’t integrate well with GNOME – so it’s probably better to go down the Pidgin route anyway.
After using QQ under Pidgin for a while, I found that sometimes there would be problems on login and that Pidgin would sometimes automatically disable QQ after a number of failed login attempts. It turns out that this can be easily fixed by selecting “Manage Accounts” and then “Modify” for the QQ account. 
In the advanced settings tab, make sure that QQ2008 is selected (the default may well be QQ2005). It seems that this later version is more stable and login should no longer be a problem.
Hey,
Thanks for this tip mate – managed to get my girlfriend logged in to QQ after it rejecting the login saying the version was too old.
Very helpful, cheers and happy Ubuntuing!~
glad the tip was useful
I’m getting this error:
您的号码可能存在异常情况，已受到限制登录保护，需激活后才能正常登录。激活网址：
http://jihuo.qq.com
Help?
我最近想登陆时也看见了这个错误，不知道该如何解决才好… 好像 Pidgin 最近对 QQ 的支持不是很全，就算能连上也是断断续续的… 希望他们会早点解决这问题～
Yeah, hope they fix this bug too. Is there any other application in Linux that supports QQ?
There is the official QQ Linux Beta Client… it doesn’t have all the features of the windows client but apart from that it runs fairly smoothly.
http://im.qq.com/qq/linux/
Thanks Jono! Just installed it indeed, and it seems to work so far… Still struggling a bit with it though, since it’s all in Mandarin haha… Guess I’ll have to study harder
what font are you using?
your chinese display looks awesome
The font is called “Vera Sans Yuanti”
Fantastic fix, worked like a charm
Oh, I’ve forgot to thank you, how rude
Thanks a million for saving my day, and quite possibly my entire year 
As a sidenote, I like the style used in your blog!