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Re:MS Security Essentials reporting false positives in the B... by duskwuff on Friday May 16, 2014 @01:23AM (#7753893)
For a while, some security suites would freak out and terminate an IRC connection if they saw the text "start keylogger" show up. You could get people to drop by saying it in a channel, for instance.
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Re:MS Security Essentials reporting false positives in the B... by TazeTSchnitzel on Friday May 16, 2014 @07:05AM (#7754860)
http://bash.org/?13213

Like this?

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Re:MS Security Essentials reporting false positives in the B... by duskwuff on Friday May 16, 2014 @11:19AM (#7755930)
Worse, actually. As I recall, it'd block access to the responsible IRC server until you rebooted the machine. But yes, kind of like that.
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Re:MS Security Essentials reporting false positives in the B... by ygra on Friday May 16, 2014 @04:18AM (#7754373)
Or, more sneakily, by embedding it in your hostmask.
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