Author Topic: Virus in X-Chat? (Read 443 times)

Meizter · « **on:** June 20, 2006, 04:08:57 AM »

Hi all

Today as I updated my virus definitions for F-Prot I got the following message:

xchat.exe Infection: Possibly a new variant of W32/IRCBot-based!Maximus

and subsequently it blocked my X-chat client.

s0ulz · « **Reply #1 on:** June 21, 2006, 12:34:24 AM »

This is common to have botbased viruses in your irc client, be it mIRC, X-chat or whatnot. Remove the virus, reinstall and make sure it doesnt get infected again.

*runs back to the great outdoors*

Meizter · « **Reply #2 on:** June 21, 2006, 12:44:19 AM »

I tried to download the X-chat from the irc.layonara site, and the version I downloaded gave my virus warnings as well as soon as I began to extract the zip file.