Forums mIRC Help Password or .ini file encryption?

I run a system where the users want to use mIRC instead of MS Comic Chat to connect to an Exchange 2000 Chat community. The problem is, the mIRC client stores the user's account password in clear text in a non-encrypted .ini file. Is there a way to encrypt either the password (contained in the host= variable) or the entire .ini file (mirc.ini)?

Yes, but doing that would require the ini file to be decrypted each time mIRC needs to access the file.

The only password that I'm aware of that mIRC stores is the one that can be set in order to control who can restore/maximize or close a running version of mIRC that has been minimized.

Are you referring to the server password? You realize that information is sent in plaintext over the wire anyway, right? So it's pretty irrelevant if you store it plaintext on disk.

In any case, if you don't want passwords stored in plaintext-- don't store the password.

Remember, it's just IRC-- the word "password" should really be taken very lightly.