Just wanted to add a comment to Horstl's post, if you want to protect your channel and your self, ask a friend if you know of someone that running linux/unix 24/7, then maybe he/she can provide you with a eggdrop (a bot that protect you and your channel), if not then you can try a windrop (also a bot that protect your channel) on your own computer "instead of your clone", many mirc scripts have good protections for channels and users, but a eggdrop or windrop also have the ability to link to other eggdrops/windrops, and many other things a script wont be able to do, atlest i havent seen a script that even got close to a eggdrop or windrop.