RE: New piece of spyware?

["Rob Shein" <shoten () starpower net>]

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: caldcv () students fccj org [mailto:caldcv () students fccj org] 
> Sent: Friday, May 14, 2004 4:12 AM
> To: incidents () securityfocus com
> Subject: Re: New piece of spyware?
>
>
> In-Reply-To: <20040514020424.22014.qmail () www 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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