Alright. Thank you. I guess I will just report it to both ZoneLabs and Malwarebytes and see if either of them can help me figure out why it's being deleted. In ZoneAlarm, I am setting it as "super trusted" under application control. On Malwarebytes, I have (as I said) the app itself AND the directories it would operate out of set as exceptions. Neither program is reporting it (mIRC) as anything at all. So I'm really not sure what's happening. Also to test, I completely turned off Windows defenses as well. It's still being deleted.
Thanks for your time. I guess there's nothing else I can do aside from reporting it to both and seeing what their statements on it is.
