Is MIRC a virus/spyware trap or what?
 

I just found out about this MIRC a few days ago, yaeh I know it's been there for a decade, and got a bunch of download offer from strangers on pretty much every room I went to. I wonder if they were trying to infect my clean computer!

since mirc exists there are these viruses spammers :) just set your DCC settings to accept certian filetypes (mp3, avi, mpg, whatever) and you'll stay protected :)

thanks for the info. I'm not really interested in downloading anything from there but I'd sure like to start my own chat room or network. How do one go about doing this?

hang around #montreal in the undernet server! :D

I went to both #montreal and #montréal. I'm still trying to find out how this thing work!

don't accecpt files from people you dont know and never vist any site that you get spammed through irc, most are exploit pages that will turn you into an open proxy for spamming :glugglug

no shit in 10 minutes my network security was going off like crazy... I wont be going back on there no time soon.....:glugglug

yeah a gofuckyourself chan on irc would be cool...

a few years ago it would have :winkwink:

there used to be one a couple years ago

IRC is awesome.
learn how to use it.

Mirc is one of the biggest peices of shit out there.

XChat is awesome. You can be on multiple servers in the same window, flood proof, and none of these viruses or shit. Use it, and you'll love it.

Oh, and it's free.

Unfortunately, if you use DCC chat frequently, you'll find that certain features are only supported in mIRC (such as accessing fserves behind firewalls).

Also, X-Chat is free unless you're on Windows.

they made a windows version ?
was using it on my linux workstation

#gofuckyourself on irc.efnet.net, dont know if it's still there but it used to be.

Aren't there a controversy surrounding XChat and there decision to to change it from a freeware to a shareware?

Best all around option is to turn DCC OFF completely, and only turn it on when requested to by some one you know.

My irc room is on free.kewlchat.net #hammertime_forums

Ohh and if your interested in hosting your own irc server you can do so easily on linux or windows with unrealircd. the linux version has more features and is alot more secure. I am in the process of setting my own up. learning linux is the hard part not irc.

undernet is fun

Be careful when clicking on links as well... they can install viruses and such.

Yeah, there's a lot of craps in there !

mIRC is awesome. Instead of downloading it off a stranger, go to their homepage to download it: http://www.mirc.com/

Turn off DCC (as others recommended)..you can chat just fine without having it on. Just keep playing with the program and you will get the hang of it.

As for your own chat server...that gets more complicated...

Easy way: Create a room on an established server.

Hard way: Owning and running your own server.
I would start out with your own room to begin with...then work up from there.

Thanks for the great infos.

Out of curiousity, is there some money to be made in owning and running a server for IRC?