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Re: New piece of spyware?
From: Mister Coffee (live4java
stormcenter.net)
Date: Fri May 14 2004 - 10:40:02 CDT
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On Fri, May 14, 2004 at 08:11:48AM -0000, caldcvstudents.fccj.org wrote:
> In-Reply-To: <20040514020424.22014.qmailwww.securityfocus.com>
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> Sorry I didn't make myself very clear. My machine is sending out the spam. It's mIRC 6.14 - I just use the bare IRC client, so I don't think I'm infected via a worm messing with my mIRC files. I looked inside the mIRC folder in all of the .ini files and nothing weird appeared. I don't download attachments from unknown sources and only use a few websites on a daily basis.
>
> Any ideas?
>
It sounds very much like one of the many mIRC "headline grabber" scripts. Do you load any scripts at all on client startup? I haven't personally used mIRC in years (XChat or BX depending on situation) but I've seen that behaviour in other people's clients.
Cheers,
L4J
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