Prometheus|ANJ
October 13th, 2003, 06:28 PM
To those who use mIRC:
Someone used the recently discovered mIRC (v6.*) DCC exploit to crash my mIRC client while I was in #art. Several other people were also attacked. Moments later Norton found the IRC.Family.Gen virus on my machine, but it was located in the temporary internet files. Norton failed to remove it. I'm unsure if any virus was planted in the attack.
To protect youself from having mIRC crashed, and prehaps having viruses installed, you can use the ignore command:
/ignore -wd *
...according to a random google site, I've seen versions without the w. This ignores all file transfers. The new version of mIRC is said to not have this vulnerbility.
Read more here (top news item):
http://www.mirc.com/
Bleh, this topic is so boring I have to throw in a fun url:
http://www.rctoys.com/draganflyer4.php
Someone used the recently discovered mIRC (v6.*) DCC exploit to crash my mIRC client while I was in #art. Several other people were also attacked. Moments later Norton found the IRC.Family.Gen virus on my machine, but it was located in the temporary internet files. Norton failed to remove it. I'm unsure if any virus was planted in the attack.
To protect youself from having mIRC crashed, and prehaps having viruses installed, you can use the ignore command:
/ignore -wd *
...according to a random google site, I've seen versions without the w. This ignores all file transfers. The new version of mIRC is said to not have this vulnerbility.
Read more here (top news item):
http://www.mirc.com/
Bleh, this topic is so boring I have to throw in a fun url:
http://www.rctoys.com/draganflyer4.php