A very simple advertisement ignorer - mIRC Discussion Forums

I know this post belongs to the scripts section of the site, alltrough posting there is not allowed for me I will give users of this forum here a chance to make their irc experience better by disabling the annoying commercials when user joins a channel.

The code below will make the queries that have a # or an http:// (in the first line) not open. You will still see the # or http:// containing lines in the normal conversation, this script only protects against one-line-query-opening commercials by making mIRC simply not displaying them.

Just hit alt+R and copy-paste text below into the open window. Click OK and you're done.

Code:

on ^1:OPEN:?:*: {
  if ( http:// isin $1-) {
      halt
    }
  }
  if ( $chr(35) isin $1-) {
     halt
  }
}

An easier way would be:

Code:

  
IF ((*www* iswm $1-) || (http://* iswm $1-) || (ftp://* iswm $1-) || ($chr(35) isin $1-)) { halt } }

NOTE: $chr(35) is # - so channel names in those advertisements would me tracked also.
Check thre varioius scripting web sites for protection scripts. The #mIRC channel operators on different networks will know some save sites to download such scripts.

BiDi:

What happens when a friend puts a web site in the chat? All you friends would have to be moved into an access level, say level 2.

But that's too much trouble to do IMO... Just ignore/kick the person manually. I know who my friends are, and who the spammers are... But good idea any how

You probably didn't notice that script works "on open" and not "on text", so the problem would be only if your friend would write url or # into the 1. line of text to you. That's not the case in 99,9% of "friendly" messages, but it happens in 95% of advertisements. My script only prevents window from opening if the first line contains advertising string. Should I say... mIRC pop-up blocker