[10767] in bugtraq
Re: mIRC 5.6 automatic URL loading
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tjerk Vonck)
Wed Jun 9 14:56:36 1999
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Date: Wed, 9 Jun 1999 09:26:42 +0200
Reply-To: Tjerk Vonck <mirc@DDS.NL>
From: Tjerk Vonck <mirc@DDS.NL>
X-To: Rich Lafferty <rich@alcor.concordia.ca>
To: BUGTRAQ@NETSPACE.ORG
In-Reply-To: <19990608224935.A22938@alcor.concordia.ca>
At 22:49 08-06-99 -0400, Rich Lafferty <rich@alcor.concordia.ca> wrote:
>About a week ago, mIRC 5.6 was released. Amongst other new features,
>it includes the following (from the changelog, versions.txt):
>
>40.Added "Track Urls" switch to System menu in Channel/Query windows,
> auto-opens websites as they are mentioned in a window.
Wait a sec; There is no general option to enable tracking in all channels
and/or all query windows. You have to switch it on on a per user (nick) or
channel base. May we assume people will only do this on channels were they
feel home and/or with other user they know personally and trust?
There is no *big red button* to enable this minor gimmick.. It is an option
in the 'System Menu' (in the top left hand corner of a window) together
with other things like logging and timestamping.
>With the cooperation of an mIRC user (thanks Lindy_!), I found that it
>does exactly as it says ..
Yes, of course, otherwise it would be buggy. In all exploit examples you
thought of it is simply a matter of disabling the URL tracking you have set
active for the channel or query. End of problem.
Tjerk.
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this new mIRC! Read more about mIRC on one of the mIRC WWW pages:
http://www.mirc.co.uk United Kingdom <- mIRC's Homesite
http://www.geocities.com/~mirc/ USA <- mIRC's US mirror
http://www.nip.nl/mirc/ The Netherlands
http://www.mirc.queen.it/ Italy
http://mirc.kems.net/ Kuwait
http://www.mirc.com.ar/ Argentina
http://www.conesul.com.br/mirc/ Brazil
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http://mirc.eon.net.au/ Australia
These pages give a lot of hints and help on mIRC and IRC. Make
sure to read the mIRC FAQ which is distributed separately from
mIRC. The FAQ answers a LOT of questions and includes a tutorial
on Aliases, Popups and on 'programming' mIRC's Tools/Remote
section...
Included in mIRC's distribution is an IRC Intro. Look in the
Help/Contents menu in mIRC for looots of help on IRC and
solutions to its most common quirks and problems. At
http://www.mirc.co.uk/servers.ini you can find the most recent
list of IRC servers.
