Forums mIRC Help MIRC.exe Virused?

Hello -

I've just done a wipe of my primary hard drive, have reinstalled mIRC from my secondary hard drive and got this virus warning from Trend Micro:

Infected file: C:\Program Files\mIRC\mirc.exe

Virus Name: TROJ BASED.A

User Name: *****

Scan action result: Quarantined.

Thinking that maybe my copy was corrupted, I grabbed a fresh copy from one of the IL servers - got the same answer. Went to one of the MI servers and same thing again.

Huh??? Did this release come with a trojan built into it???

I've never had this pop up before and am a bit concerned.

Help answering this most perplexing question would be most appreciated!

Thanks!

At the time of posting, I literally just flicked from an mIRC window dealing with an oper who said their AV was reporting the same thing as were a number of others.

This seems to happen occasionally, AVs get touchy with mIRC. mIRC is not a trojan, it is safe to download provided you only download from the official mIRC mirrors at this website

* Mentality waits for the flood of posts about this

Regards,

I just had the same thing happen to me last night. even maximising a mirc session would activate a virus alert in my Trend AV program. I cannot unload my AV as it is a global system for the company I work for.

TEMP FIX : But I found that if I just rename the mirc.exe to mircx.exe it works & the virus scanner is blissfully ignorant.

The AV warning I got was for TROJ_BASED.A which according to the trend virus defintions... doesnt exist

Trend's AV software is bad :tongue:

As an update, according to a helpful user in Undernet's #mIRC channel, Trendmicro have apparently released an update file for their AntiVirus (if that is the one you're using), dropping that Trojan from detection. I don't use Trend, so am unable to test, but I hope it fixes it for you. They released this around 3 hours after releasing the update file containing the detection of that trojan.

The download link is: http://www.trendmicro.com/download/pattern.asp

You can also use Trend's auto-update feature.

Regards,

Just as a note, i use the latest mcafee security suite, it detects almost everything as a risk these days, but you can train your AV to recognize what's ok, like i add my mIRC i currently use, and tell it not to delete moo.dll amongst other things.