Forums Feature Suggestions Lock mIRC

Maybe you can add this as checkbox in
Options - General - Lock :
Ask for password when trying to maximize
(when mIRC is minimized and you try to open it)
Would be very usefull for my mIRC-bot

Yes it is useful, and it already exists. When you minimize mIRC, press and hold ctrl. If you have a password already set in the lock options thats all you must do, if not mIRC will prompt you to enter a password. When you try to maximize mIRC you enter that password.

I know but that's just my point,
that bot starts with my Windows(minimized), so I can't put a password on it because my parents also work on it(and they don't know the password).
But I don't want them to look in the bot.

make a dialog and use $dialog(name,name,-2)

on cancel button .timer -m 1 100 $dialog...

on startup $dialog...

and ready ;-)

I don't get it

Unset the password is very easy .. Just change the value from registry .. HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\mIRC\LockOptions\Default to 0,1 ..

I still think that the built in lock for mIRC should only affect its individual directory rather than all mIRC.exe files on the PC for those of us that have multiple scripts. That way if there are more mIRC users in the household they can still chat given the option that they can either not lock or lock their favorite mIRC script. But thats probably just me though, and its no big deal if this can't be done. It was just an idea.

I also think the password location should be changes. Make a registry addition elsewehre, so its no so easy to bypass >:S

I agree.

Well how would moving it somewhere else make it harder to bypass? It'd be very easy to discover where mIRC writes it to the registry. You just download a tool like regmon.exe (free utility) which monitors registry accesses. Set the filter to only look for what keys mIRC accesses. Then you have the exact key that the value is stored in.

How about a txt file on the computer elsewhere?

Lucky me my parents almost can't work with the PC

Regmon have a sister .. It call Filemon This monitoring tool lets you see all file system activity in real-time.

All im saying is some kind of change is better than none. The fact thats its ridiculously easy to bypass the password, just create a .reg file, run it, viola--mirc is unlocked. Changing to sport would atlease decrease the count of people that know to some extent.

Well the question with passwords is always, should the password be so hard to bypass that if you forget your password, you're out of luck? Or, should it be easy enough that if you forget it, you can still find a way around it?

well, again all im saying is change location. If someone forgets it, release the location. I mean, just having less people knowing the location would be purpose enoguh to change it.

If 100,00 people know where the password is stored at this minute, then Khaled changes it. Now, say 10% of them use a program like regmon, okay, so now 10,000, another 5,000 find out cause they lost their password (15,00) now, add for the hell of it another 20,000 (35,000) thats still 65,000 that are unknowing and just that much more secure of a lock. Anyways, that wouuld force programs that say get mirc passwords (assuming a user uses the same password on mirc as they do their everyday mail, or whatnot) into making new version, also creating a more secure envoirnment fo people.

make the options encrypted so it harder to modify the values
only for lock func. or use 3th party security programs
limited what programs can be run, is best option to keep kids from using unwanted items