mirc.exe
mIRC by mIRC Co. Ltd. (Signed)
Warning 20 antivirus scanners has detected malware in various versions of mirc.exe.
Overview
mirc.exe has 7 known versions, the most recent one is 7.25.0.0. mirc.exe is run as a standard windows process with the logged in user's account privileges. It also provides a graphical interface (GUI) for the user to interact with it and contains an icon in the Windows notifictaion system tray (near the clock). The average file size is about 2.65 MB. It is an authenticode code-signed executable issued to mIRC Co. Ltd. by the certification authority Thawte. During the process's lifecycle, the typical CPU resource utilization is less than 0.01%, the average private memory consumption is about 15.81 MB. Addionally, typically read and write I/O disk operations is about 290.74 KB per minute for reads and 2.1 KB per minute for writes.
What is mirc.exe?
mIRC is an Internet Relay Chat (IRC) client for Microsoft Windows. mIRC's abilities and behaviors can be altered and extended using the embedded mIRC scripting language. mIRC scripting is not limited to IRC related events and commands. There is also support for COM objects, calling DLLs, sockets and dialog boxes, among other things.
About mirc.exe (from mIRC Co. Ltd.)
“mIRC is a popular Internet Relay Chat client used by millions of people, and thousands of organizations, to communicate, share, play and work with each other on IRC networks around the world. Serving ”
 Details
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| File name: | mirc.exe |
| Publisher: | mIRC Co. Ltd. |
| Product name: | mIRC |
| Typical file path: | C:\Program Files\mirc\mirc.exe |
| Certificate |
| Issued to: | mIRC Co. Ltd. |
| Authority (CA): | Thawte |
| Effective date: | Wednesday, August 25, 2010 |
| Expiration date: | Saturday, November 12, 2011 |
Programs installed in
(Note, the programs listed below are for all versions of mIRC.)
Eros-Script is a script based on mIRC. Eros-Script is build for use on the IRCHeaven network. The script is also useble for another networks.
“mIRC is a full featured Internet Relay Chat client for Windows that can be used to communicate, share, play or work with others on IRC networks around the world, either in multi-user group conferences...”
Behaviors
(Note, the behaviors below are for all versions of mirc.exe, select a unique version for details.)
Windows firewall allowed programs
Exceptions allow programs to access to the Internet through an outbound connections
- Firewall exception for 'C:\Program Files\mIRC\mirc.exe'
- Firewall exception for 'C:\Program Files\mIRC\backups\mirc.exe'
- Firewall exception for 'C:\Program Files\mIRC\backups\mirc.exe'
- Firewall exception for 'C:\Program Files\mIRC\mirc.exe'
Malware detections
Based on 40+ industry antivirus scanners, 20 of them detected the following malware.
| Antivirus engine | Engine version | Detection | File version |
| Avira AntiVir |
7.11.83.246 |
SPR/mIRC.Gen |
7.25.0.0 |
| Antiy Labs AVL |
2.0.3.7 |
Client-IRC/Win32.mIRC.gen |
6.21 |
| Antiy Labs AVL |
2.0.3.7 |
Client-IRC/Win32.mIRC.gen |
7.25.0.0 |
| Antiy Labs AVL |
2.0.3.7 |
Client-IRC/Win32.mIRC.gen |
7.22.0.0 |
| avast! |
6.0.1289.0 |
Win32:Mirc-Z [PUP] |
6.21 |
| avast! |
6.0.1289.0 |
Win32:PUP-gen [PUP] |
7.25.0.0 |
| Comodo Internet Security |
15862 |
Application.Win32.mIRC.621 |
6.21 |
| Ikarus |
T3.1.4.0.0 |
not-a-virus:Client-IRC.Win32.mIRC |
6.21 |
| Ikarus |
T3.1.4.3.0 |
not-a-virus:Client-IRC.Win32.mIRC |
7.25.0.0 |
| Kaspersky |
9.0.0.837 |
not-a-virus:Client-IRC.Win32.mIRC.ct |
7.19.0.0 |
| Kaspersky |
9.0.0.837 |
not-a-virus:Client-IRC.Win32.mIRC.621 |
6.21 |
| Kaspersky |
9.0.0.837 |
not-a-virus:Client-IRC.Win32.mIRC.eg |
7.25.0.0 |
| Kaspersky |
12.0.0.1221 |
not-a-virus:Client-IRC.Win32.mIRC.fe |
7.22.0.0 |
| Kingsoft |
2013.1.8.219 |
Win32.Troj.Generic.(kcloud) |
6.21 |
| McAfee |
5.400.1158 |
Artemis!B0FF26C5970A |
7.25.0.0 |
| McAfee Gateway Anti-Malware |
v2012.1-dat |
Heuristic.LooksLike.Win32.Suspicious.R!86 |
7.25.0.0 |
| NANO AntiVirus |
0.22.8.50837 |
Riskware.Win32.MIRC.cmrbq |
7.19.0.0 |
| Symantec |
20131.1.0.101 |
WS.Reputation.1 |
7.25.0.0 |
| Trend Micro HouseCall |
9.700.0.1001 |
TROJ_GEN.RCBH1LU |
7.25.0.0 |
| ViRobot |
2011.4.7.4223 |
Client.IRC.mIRC.2076672 |
6.21 |
All file variations of mirc.exe
Distribution by Windows OS
| OS version | distribution |
| Microsoft Windows XP |
83.33% |
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| Windows XP Professional |
16.67% |
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