From: Walter Watts (wlwatts@cox.net)
Date: Tue Mar 23 2004 - 23:13:17 MST
Thanks, rhino. I wish I had read this 4 hours earlier and I wouldn't have wasted 3.5 hours on Trillian ;-> What a giant hairball!
I really like the VIRC. It's like a tighter, simpler, leaner mIRC without malware problems.
It's what I'll be using.
Thanks,
Walter
rhinoceros wrote:
> [Walter]
> Sorry, it was mIRC's problem. Reinfection occurs until you do the crap outlined here:
>
> http://www.trendmicro.com/vinfo/virusencyclo/default5.asp?vname=bkdr_ircflood.y&vsect=t
>
> Walter
> <who will be busy doing this on TWO pc's in time for tonight's chat, so I don't have
> to use the BBS interface>
>
> [rhinoceros]
> How the hell did you get infected? I wonder... is it possible to get infected, even if you accept all DCC, if you don't run any executable file that you downloaded? Did you accept candy err... a script from a stranger or what?
>
> Myself, I have been using VIRC, which seems pretty neat, and I never had any problem -- or if I had one it was never reported :P
>
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