Chris Huseman(ChrisH@A-T-G.COM)@Mon, Apr 23, 2001 at 04:33:54PM -0500: > This is as of yet unconfirmed, and _VERY_ unlikely. > > A fellow operator of #mIRC on Efnet (Sojourn) tried to talk to the person > who created this chaos, log here: http://mirc.stealth.net/bughoax.txt > > This is most likely a hoax, and/or a misinformed user. The reason you can't > find code or details on the bug is simply because it doesn't exist. > > Many people I've spoken to (along with me) have mailed BUGTRAQ about this > (in an attempt to stop the unfounded panic), but it seems none of the > informed responses have been approved yet. > (I reply to you, but this is to everyone who responded. Thank you all) Good. Something like that is quite troubling to those of us who use mIRC. I probably should have not been so quick to react, but that's why I didn't go to bugtraq :) Anyway, thanks to all of those who are working to make sure everyone knows that it is (or seems to be) a hoax. I'll go back to lurking now :)
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