Okay so about 2 days ago, my virus & spy protection software alerted me that they detected mIRC as riskware (after using it without incident for more than 200 days). Not realizing the alert was regarding mIRC I decided to quarantine the file. After doing so I've tried to reopen IRC to no luck, then tried to restore the file to it's previous status. Still to no avail. After that I decided to uninstall the program in it's entirety and do a full reinstall.

Now it's saying this on a 'fresh install':
"Windows cannot access the specified device, path, or file. You may not have the appropriate permissions to access them."
It's also still detecting the program as riskware.

I would really appreciate any help that gets me back on IRC in a timely manner.