... I honestly don't think I've ever had to wait several months for an exploit fix before.
I seem to have missed something here. How did we progress from a bug/memory leak to an "exploit"?
In addition (to earlier posts), I can't see that "mIRC is dead - it seems to be alive and well - has there been a pressing need for an upgraded version recently?
Granted that a few "minor" bug fixes wouldn't go astray - not that I have come across any myself.
Cheers,
DK