mIRC DCC Exploit
Posted: Mon Oct 13, 2003 12:45 pmmIRC DCC Exploit
Starting Oct 12, 2003, an exploit was used to crash many people's mIRC clients. All versions from 6.0 thru the recently released 6.11 are affected. (It does not appear to affect version 5.91 or earlier.) The exploit involves a type of DCC command which can be sent to any person or channel, no matter what your DCC options are. (DCC is used to trade files or for DCC chat.) The author of mIRC has been notified, presumably an official fix will be forthcoming "soon" but that is up to him. In the meantime, please don't clamor for more information, everything we are at liberty to say is here.
For now, the only known fix is to ignore all DCC requests entirely. Just type the following command, on a new line by itself in any chat window, beginning with the slash character:
/ignore -wd *
(We don't advise downgrading to 5.x, since those have known exploits and multi-server doens't work. Do you really need warez/porn that badly that you can't ignore DCCs a few days? Err, don't answer that.)
sorry for posting in here ... cause if I submit as NEWS it will take a few days to publish in your HOME page - miniPC seems to be very bz.
Starting Oct 12, 2003, an exploit was used to crash many people's mIRC clients. All versions from 6.0 thru the recently released 6.11 are affected. (It does not appear to affect version 5.91 or earlier.) The exploit involves a type of DCC command which can be sent to any person or channel, no matter what your DCC options are. (DCC is used to trade files or for DCC chat.) The author of mIRC has been notified, presumably an official fix will be forthcoming "soon" but that is up to him. In the meantime, please don't clamor for more information, everything we are at liberty to say is here.
For now, the only known fix is to ignore all DCC requests entirely. Just type the following command, on a new line by itself in any chat window, beginning with the slash character:
/ignore -wd *
(We don't advise downgrading to 5.x, since those have known exploits and multi-server doens't work. Do you really need warez/porn that badly that you can't ignore DCCs a few days? Err, don't answer that.)
sorry for posting in here ... cause if I submit as NEWS it will take a few days to publish in your HOME page - miniPC seems to be very bz.
