Re: recent mIRC vulnerability

From: Weiss, Bill (bill_weissat_private)
Date: Mon Apr 23 2001 - 21:52:02 PDT

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    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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