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RE: New piece of spyware?

From: Rob Shein (shotenstarpower.net)
Date: Fri May 14 2004 - 11:35:44 CDT


You *think* you're using the bare mIRC client. I don't think you are
anymore, although not by conscious decision. Install a parallel copy of
mIRC, connect to the same server and channel (without starting your original
copy of mIRC, mind you), and see what happens.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: caldcvstudents.fccj.org [mailto:caldcvstudents.fccj.org]
> Sent: Friday, May 14, 2004 4:12 AM
> To: incidentssecurityfocus.com
> Subject: Re: New piece of spyware?
>
>
> In-Reply-To: <20040514020424.22014.qmailwww.securityfocus.com>
>
> 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?
>
> -CC
>
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