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NOD32 finding a trojan #183312 19/08/07 04:53 AM
P pcguy
pcguy P	During the installation of mIRC 6.3 NOD32 2.7 indicated that there was a IRC/Flood.CP Trojan in mirc.ini .

Re: NOD32 finding a trojan #183314 19/08/07 05:48 AM
Joined: Jul 2007 Posts: 1,124 United States T Tomao Hoopy frood
Tomao Hoopy frood T Joined: Jul 2007 Posts: 1,124 United States	I hope it's a false positive as my anti-virus didn't pick up any viruses. Furthermore, why will a well-known, well respected IRC client want to ruin its reputation? Think about that for a minute. Last edited by Tomao; 19/08/07 05:51 AM.

Re: NOD32 finding a trojan Tomao #183316 19/08/07 06:27 AM
Joined: Aug 2004 Posts: 7,168 Ontario, Canada R RusselB Hoopy frood
RusselB Hoopy frood R Joined: Aug 2004 Posts: 7,168 Ontario, Canada	Additionally, Norton (aka NOD) has a known reputation of returning a false positive with mIRC.

Re: NOD32 finding a trojan RusselB #183317 19/08/07 06:32 AM
Joined: Dec 2002 Posts: 3,015 London, UK C Collective Hoopy frood
Collective Hoopy frood C Joined: Dec 2002 Posts: 3,015 London, UK	Norton and NOD32 are unrelated products.

Re: NOD32 finding a trojan #183319 19/08/07 06:35 AM
E Exacuter_411
Exacuter_411 E	I use NOD32 and it didn't detect anything.

Re: NOD32 finding a trojan Collective #183322 19/08/07 06:55 AM
Joined: Aug 2004 Posts: 7,168 Ontario, Canada R RusselB Hoopy frood
RusselB Hoopy frood R Joined: Aug 2004 Posts: 7,168 Ontario, Canada	My apologies...I thought NOD was made by the same people that make Norton.

Re: NOD32 finding a trojan RusselB #183323 19/08/07 06:57 AM
E Exacuter_411
Exacuter_411 E	NOD is from Eset (www.eset.com)

Re: NOD32 finding a trojan #183370 19/08/07 02:03 PM
Joined: Jun 2003 Posts: 4,670 London, England M Mentality Hoopy frood
Mentality Hoopy frood M Joined: Jun 2003 Posts: 4,670 London, England	False positives are regularly returned by a range of antivirus products when running or installing mIRC. This is most likely due to the fact that some trojans do manipulate some of mIRC's default files, or "zombies" make use of mIRC to connect to IRC servers. Nevertheless, downloading mIRC from this website is an absolute guarantee that there is no virus or trojan in the installer package, so you can go ahead and install mIRC safely. Regards,

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