Hello Splatt
On 15-Apr-00, you wrote:
S> The DCC request goes through the server as a normal CTCP, sends
S> information like filename, their hostname and port number for your IRC
S> client to connect to to recieve the file. And as Dalnet is a very lame
S> IRC network, it thinks a text file is a virus. DCC Allow is probably a
S> command in mirc.. Thats really pathetic that a network as big as Dalnet
S> is doing this.
No. Trojans are transferred as Macros in Word. Our University had much
trouble with these a while back. Word uses *.doc, and these can contain such
macro virii. So its not really lame, but they ought to leave it to the user.
On the other hand, the warning is good for newbies.
Love,
Jamie
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