World of Warcraft: one simple line of code can cost you dearly (2016)

Re:World of Warcraft: one simple line of code can cost you d... by ryanlol on Wednesday October 31, 2018 @12:14PM (#18346963)

>I'm pretty sure it was in the early days but I might be wrong there. mIRC did have some crazy defaults initially but those were quickly changed

I had a mircv37 installer laying around, autoaccept was not the default back then. I’m pretty certain it never was.

>I beg to differ. You haven't given a single piece of accurate evidence to prove that any other client suffered from the same issues as mIRC.

We haven’t really established what issues mIRC suffered from, besides the DCC issue that still exists in irssi today.

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Re:World of Warcraft: one simple line of code can cost you d... by laumars on Wednesday October 31, 2018 @12:33PM (#18347133)

Maybe mIRC attacks were more prevalent because mIRC users were generally less savvy than their Irssi counterparts?

My memory might be fuzzy but it definitely felt like mIRC was getting disproportionately "pwned" at the time.

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