regarding this hanson exploit... i've not been able to use it in anyway to break my mirc 5.3, but i assume thats because i'm not using this feature in my script... it DOES however seem to be able to crash my ICQ on a regular basis, when directed at the ICQ port... sometimes just disconnecting me, and sometimes causing an "internal error" that closes the program... just thought i'd let y'all know On Sun, 7 Dec 1997, Derek Reynolds wrote: > Hi, The past week many people have downloaded the long awaited mIRC 5.3 and > have done many nice things with it in the way of socket scripting.. > > Below is a program that will exploit mIRC's new socket feature and crash the > client and make the windows95/NT environment run very very slow (Pentium > will now be sluggish as a 286). By the way, I have ported the src to win32 > binary executable which works aswell. > > I would like to address the author of mIRC (Khaled) : Maybe you should add > me to your beta list.. hehe. > > > keep it real > > myn@efnet > > ------- hanson.c ------------ > >
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