[Ham-Computers] mIRC Services???

[Jim Myers]

Many trojans will install a mIRC client to give them the ability to 
access your computer remotely.  If you never used mIRC, then you have 
no reason to reinstall it.  The anti-virus software was telling you 
to reinstall it because it assumed that you were using mIRC, and that 
it was infected by the virus/trojan.

Jim  KD7EIR

At 08:44 PM 3/25/2007, you wrote:
>OK.  And thanks to the other respondent who said it's a chat room program.  I
>don't do chat rooms and don't do instant messenger.  So unless the "m" means
>Microsoft and it came as a part of W2K installed by default, it isn't on any
>of our machines.  I'm certain that I never knowingly installed it.
>
>In a message dated 3/25/2007 9:06:42 PM Central Standard Time,
>ad5pe at sbcglobal.net writes:
> > IRC = Internet Relay Chat - in other words, a flavor of Instant Messenger.
>
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