Forums Bug Reports WIN32.IRCFLOOD virus

Computer Associates and Semantic and other anti virus software are suddenly recognizing a file named WIN32.IRCFLOOD as a virus, when the anti-virus software removes the file it removes the mIRC.exe file as well, and you can not open mIRC. I have tried downloading the program from several sites, CA immediately removes the WIN32.IRCFLOOD file regardless of the site it was downloaded from, Does anyone know A: Is this a true virus. B Is there a fix for it?

Thanks,
Reverend Justme
SQRadio

There's another post about this here .

I use CA's EZ Antivirus, and found that by adding the path to the mirc.exe file into the exclusions list for Real-time and On-demand scanning, it prevented it from deleting the mirc.exe file.

The only problem with this is that if something attempts to replace the mirc.exe file with anything nasty, then the AV wont pick it up. However, I also use Kerio Personal Firewall which detects when an .exe as been replaced/modified.

Hope this helps.

I use CA's etrust too and started facing this problem some hours back !!!

I think that the new dat updates for etrust AV has started recognising MIRC.exe as a trojan W32.IRCFLood/mirc thanks to some trojan using MIRC for its work.

I guess this is an AV bug and CA needs to sort this out internally on a war footing !!!

And how exactly is this an mIRC bug?

I hope you realize you are reporting a problem with your AVG in the forum of an IRC client. You should report on the bug report forum of those AVG's, not here. It doesn't matter if it detects mIRC as a virus, an mIRC copy downloaded from the official source http://www.mirc.com/get.html is not a virus, no matter what your AVG says.

got over exclused mirc.exe & Win32.IRCFlood infection
- very dangerous spy 'mnsi.exe' was running as process
- my internet connection hangs due network overuse
by mnsi.exe