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I have just downloaded v7.54 and Norton has removed it as it says it is unsafe is there any reason it should do this and if anybody could help many thanks David

This is called a false-positive and usually happens when an anti-virus company updates their virus definition files without checking them properly. The result is that the anti-virus software starts incorrectly detecting some applications or files as trojans or viruses. Unfortunately this happens all the time. For example, some years ago Microsoft Security Essentials detected the Google Chrome web browser as a trojan and recommended that users delete it.

You would need to contact your anti-virus software company to report the issue and to ask them for a solution. They should then correct the error in the next update of their virus definition files and should be able to tell you how to prevent their software from behaving this way in the meantime.

There is a very popular website owned by Google, called VirusTotal. The web address is https://www.virustotal.com/

It gives zero hits, including for Norton (Symantec). Here's the direct link and screen capture for mIRC 7.54
https://www.virustotal.com/#/file/7e2ab3...6f10e/detection

Drag & Drop your own mirc.exe file to VirusTotal, or compare its checksum values to those below, to perform your own verification for reassurance.