I heard this from one of my friends I just wanted to know from someone to see if it only happened to him. Thx.

-- Anonymous, May 06, 2003

Answers

No.

-- Anonymous, May 06, 2003

actually, yes it is 9 out of 10 people get hacked within one hour of installing it

*rolls eyes*

-- Anonymous, May 06, 2003

No, it doesn't. I've been using it for ages and I have yet to experience any troubles.

-- Anonymous, May 06, 2003

Is there any way to find out for sure? I was thinking about asking my dad to let me install it, but now I'm not so sure...

-- Anonymous, May 06, 2003

im telling you its virus haven

all the hackers are just waiting for fresh meat i mean, you can try but you'll prolly get hacked use at your own risk

*rolls eyes*

-- Anonymous, May 06, 2003

You're just making him paranoid! Don't be so mean. mIRC is just a chat program. It's internet relay chat, and the only way you can get a virus is if you accept and run a file from another user.

In order to prevent this, goto File-Options and then goto DCC- Folders. Here you have the option to ignore all files except those with certain extensions (ie, safe files, like *.jpg, *.bmp), or ignore files with extensions that are liable to be virussed (such as *.exe, *.bat)

Other than that, mIRC is no different from Yahoo chat (which basically uses a similar client), except the servers are generally faster, and file sharing is easier.

-- Anonymous, May 06, 2003

mIRC is the BEST for dling anime!!!

-- Anonymous, May 08, 2003

Mirc is shit kid unless your good with comps and can smell a hacker dont use this. but if u r smart and now your way around this kind of stuff go ahead and even if u know your way around dont use it unless u have firewall and a good antivirus program cuase Mirc is trogan paradise.

-- Anonymous, May 09, 2003

I'm not that oblivious to hackers. And I have a good firewall and antivirus stuff, but I mean, if you're likely to get a virus after 1 download, it's probably not worth having. Anime or not. The files are no good with a crashed computer... in my opinion

-- Anonymous, May 11, 2003

TJ - if you do end up using mirc, remember NEVER to do the things in private messages, such as "You have been infected with a virus. Go here" or "copy and paste this to get rid of spam". And as long as you don't accept weird files, all's fine.

-- Anonymous, May 11, 2003

For the guy that said you have to be "good with computers and smell a hacker" to use mirc, that is ridiculous. mIRC is a simple client like any other which you use to connect to a server and chat with others. Same as any other chatting deal like Yahoo. The only difference on an irc network would be your ip address being displayed to others and that is easily masked by getting a user id on cservice's website (if you use undernet) which will then only show username.undernet.org as the address. Even if people do get your ip address, that doesn't mean they can now "hack you" and take complete control of your computer. That is another ridiculous, yet wide- spread misconception. If it was that easy, all public servers and websites would be getting "hacked" every day since afterall, you have their address. I've used IRC for many years with my ip address displayed to all and I never had a problem.

-- Anonymous, May 19, 2003

Alright, that's fuckin lame !!! MIRC contain 0 viruses, the users has viruses and share it with people ( sometimes without even knowing that) Do not accept a file from someone you don't trust, that's on irc after all. Download what you have to, talk with people then after that leave the channel and quit irc. MIRC IS A SHAREWARE NOT A SPYWARE

on this, I thank you.

jeff

-- Anonymous, May 27, 2003

Hi. I'm naked.

-- Anonymous, June 05, 2003