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90% of PCs block this file from running.
Possible reason:
Multiple malware detections
Additional versions
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mirc.exe
mIRC by mIRC Co. Ltd. (Signed)
| Version: | 7.25.0.0 |
| MD5: | b0ff26c5970ae1804d425a3e9c3a39b5 |
| SHA1: | ca34844ca5e0b3d1913a4ac7e311518832963c07 |
| SHA256: | af2a8874a657546bdf45ea384f1fe3413159d4bc20d9f5ddd6c28c8dda6c8cbc |
Warning 9 antivirus scanners has detected malware.
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
| File name: | mirc.exe |
| Publisher: | mIRC Co. Ltd. |
| Product name: | mIRC |
| Typical file path: | C:\Program Files\mirc\mirc.exe |
| File version: | 7.25.0.0 |
| Product version: | 7.25 |
| Size: | 1.04 MB (1,093,760 bytes) |
| Certificate |
| Issued to: | mIRC Co. Ltd. |
| Authority (CA): | Thawte |
| Effective date: | Wednesday, August 25, 2010 |
| Expiration date: | Saturday, November 12, 2011 |
| Digital DNA |
| Entropy: | 6.396304 |
| File packed: | No |
| .NET CLR: | No |
More details
Programs
The following programs will install this file
“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 or in one-to-one private discussions. It has a clean, practical interface that is highly configurable and supports features such as buddy lists, file transfers, multi-server connections, IPv6, SSL encryption, proxy support, UTF-8 display, ...”
Behaviors
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'
Network connections
Access through an approved Windows firewall exception
[TCP] IRC (188.165.69.191:7255)
[TCP] Service.bitboxes.co.uk (217.146.93.119:6667)
Malware detections
Based on 40+ industry antivirus scanners, 9 of them detected the following malware.
| Antivirus engine | Engine version | Detection |
| Avira AntiVir |
7.11.83.246 |
SPR/mIRC.Gen |
| Antiy Labs AVL |
2.0.3.7 |
Client-IRC/Win32.mIRC.gen |
| avast! |
6.0.1289.0 |
Win32:PUP-gen [PUP] |
| Ikarus |
T3.1.4.3.0 |
not-a-virus:Client-IRC.Win32.mIRC |
| Kaspersky |
9.0.0.837 |
not-a-virus:Client-IRC.Win32.mIRC.eg |
| McAfee |
5.400.1158 |
Artemis!B0FF26C5970A |
| McAfee Gateway Anti-Malware |
v2012.1-dat |
Heuristic.LooksLike.Win32.Suspicious.R!86 |
| Symantec |
20131.1.0.101 |
WS.Reputation.1 |
| Trend Micro HouseCall |
9.700.0.1001 |
TROJ_GEN.RCBH1LU |
Resource utilization
(Note: statistics below are averages based on a minimum sample size of 200 unique participants)
Averages
| CPU |
| Total CPU: | 0.00010597% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00004734% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00005864% | |
| Kernel CPU time: | 631,593 ms/min | |
| CPU cycles: | 24,487,692/sec | |
| Context switches: | 445/sec | |
| Memory |
| Private memory: | 35.66 MB | |
| Private (maximum): | 26.85 MB | |
| Private (minimum): | 13.92 MB | |
| Non-paged memory: | 35.66 MB | |
| Virtual memory: | 184.61 MB | |
| Virtual memory (peak): | 204.54 MB | |
| Working set: | 22.84 MB | |
| Working set (peak): | 29.88 MB | |
| Page faults: | 3,727,332/min | |
| I/O |
| I/O read transfer: | 881 Bytes/sec | |
| I/O read operations: | 7/sec | |
| I/O write transfer: | 1.03 KB/sec | |
| I/O write operations: | 16/sec | |
| I/O other transfer: | 1.36 KB/sec | |
| I/O other operations: | 40/sec | |
| Resource allocations |
| Threads: | 12 | |
| Handles: | 326 | |
| GUI GDI count: | 444 | |
| GUI GDI peak: | 459 | |
| GUI USER count: | 578 | |
| GUI USER peak: | 655 | |
Process properties
Threads
Averages
| mirc.exe (main module) |
| Total CPU: | 0.12873529% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.07585373% | |
| User CPU: | 0.05288155% | |
| CPU cycles: | 8,103,941/sec | |
| Context switches: | 66/sec | |
| Memory: | 5.01 MB | |
| ntdll.dll |
| Total CPU: | 0.00004403% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00001892% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00002512% | |
| CPU cycles: | 49,797/sec | |
| Memory: | 1.66 MB | |
| wow64.dll |
| Total CPU: | 0.00001219% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00001074% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00000145% | |
| CPU cycles: | 1,206/sec | |
| Memory: | 252 KB | |
Distribution by Windows OS
| OS version | distribution |
| Microsoft Windows XP |
83.33% |
|
| Windows XP Professional |
16.67% |
|
Distribution by country
United States installs about 100.00% of mIRC.
Distribution by PC manufacturer
| PC Manufacturer | distribution |
| Dell |
100.00% |
|
