Re: virus: could we get it off of our CoV chat server

From: Walter Watts (wlwatts@cox.net)
Date: Tue Mar 23 2004 - 23:13:17 MST

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    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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