I am not blaming mIRC. It is a very good IRC client and it is used by close to 99% of chatters on most networks. It is regrettable that it is targeted by virus writers.
However, if I can convince 1000 people a night to upgrade, that it is 1000 people that cannot be exploited using currently published advisories. It is also 1000 chatters that will get 410 improvements/bug fixes (since 5.91)
Is that a bad thing to do?
16-bit mIRC is an interesting issue. So far, I have noticed one chatter in many thousands using it, or at least one that CTCP VERSION I can see. I will talk to this person and see if he/she uses 16-bit because he/she has to or perhaps because he/she installed it by mistake long time ago.
<OT>My abacus does not connect to the Internet, I blame Bill Gates for that!</OT>
