What is SCRIPT.INI?
SCRIPT.INI is an mIRC script that is currently circulating the major IRC networks at epidemic proportions. It is filled with commands to allow others to control your IRC session, watch your conversations, and disrupt your IRC session. It takes advantage of two potential security holes in the mIRC client, auto-DCC-get, and the automatic execution of files named SCRIPT.INI in the mIRC directory. 1.1 Is SCRIPT.INI a virus? SCRIPT.INI is not a virus. Viruses reproduce on their own. SCRIPT.INI has to be willingly accepted by its host before reproducing. Even though it most commonly is transmitted over auto-DCC-get, since users have to turn on auto-DCC-get, it is not reproducing “on its own”. 1.2 Is SCRIPT.INI a trojan horse? It could be considered a trojan horse. In the case where a user sees someone sending them a script, and runs the script without examining it first to see what it does, SCRIPT.INI acts as a trojan horse. However, in the case of it being received with auto-DCC-get, it is
