
Let’s say you want to connect to channel (room) ircchannel on IRC server. Crimeware: Understanding New Attacks and Defenses. With mIRC installed, you only need to know two simple commands to connect to an IRC server and to join a channel /server and /join. Jakobsson, Markus Ramzan, Zulfikar (2008).AVIEN Malware Defense Guide for the Enterprise.
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'IRC News Jan 04 02 Happy 2002 - //$decode trojan keeps going and going.
^ Ahmadi Bidakhwidi, Mohammad (2005) 'mIRC Worm'Archived at the Wayback Machine. ^ 'mIRC Backdoors - An Advanced Overview'. ^ 'mIRC download for 6.35 and latest version'. ^ 'InternetNews Traffic Patterns 2003'. IRC Hacks: 100 Industrial-Strength Tips & Tools. This led to changes being made in mIRC version 6.17: according to the author, $decode is now disabled by default, and various other features which can be considered dangerous are now lockable. The issue was reported in August 2001 even five months later, users were still being reported as having fallen prey, tricked into executing commands on their systems which result in 'handing control of mIRC over to somebody else'. One example of abuse was that executed with the $decode identifier which decodes a given encoded string. Due to the level of access the language has to a user's computer - for example, being able to rename and delete files - a number of abusive scripts have been made.