mIRC

MIRC is a shareware displaced, widely used IRC client for Microsoft Windows.

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MIRC has been developed by the Jordanian software developer Khaled Mardam -Bey and published on 28 February 1995 for the first time in version 2.1a. It has since grown into one of the most popular IRC client for Windows. Its versatility is mainly based on the integrated scripting language mIRC scripts, abbreviated MSL ( mIRC Scripting Language ). This is so extensive that with their help an MP3 player, IRC games, HTTP server and clients, and DCC file server and IRC bots have been implemented. In order to write programs in mIRC scripts has on IRC a community of followers formed.

Special Features

  • Scripting Language mIRC Script ( also msl or mIRC Scripting Language )
  • CTCP with CTCP SOUND support
  • DCC chat and file transfer
  • DCC File Server
  • MIRC color codes
  • Speech, with the help of third party software
  • Encrypted connection to SSL-enabled IRC servers
  • UPnP and IPv6 support

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The m in mIRC stands, according to the developer on his personal site for "mu ", which corresponds to the Japanese characters for " no thing ".

MIRC is probably the most widely used IRC client for Windows. In 2004, the largest IRC network is QuakeNet, a network-wide query version of connected users performed which proved a spread of 93.71 % for mIRC.

  • So far, more than 30 million downloads from CNET Download Service.
  • MIRC v4 was assessed in December 1996, "five cows " and the title 'a Must Have application' by Scott Swedorskis TUCOWS.
  • CNET reviewed in January 1998 19 IRC client mIRC and was 5 at best.
  • MIRC v5.7 was ranked number 12 of the 'download of the Millennium Award' chosen by ZDNet.
  • In February 2002, one million people were represented on the mailing list for announcements of new versions of mIRC.
  • MIRC is or was employed by the U.S. military in analyzes and statements of drone attacks.

Criticisms

The high popularity also brings disadvantages, so rife various viruses and Trojan horses that can spread through the IRC and are almost exclusively directed against mIRC users. Seduce particular bona fide users to execute malicious coded and dissemination routines. But since Version 6:17, there is the possibility of some identifiers (including $ decode, $ dll), which are often used to spread malicious code to disable.

Another point of criticism is the implementation of so-called color- code, which is not the IRC standard RFC 1459 compliant. They open minor text formatting ( text color, background color of the text, bold, underline ) and are perceived by some users as a nuisance. Many recent IRC clients Color codes are ignored. Classical IRC clients have, especially if they are run in a terminal window, but sometimes difficulties with the presentation. In particular, it may occur here font rendering in background color or blinking font, which in turn is perceived by many as a nuisance. Many IRC servers implement this feature yet.

Development

After a long development break, in which virtually only errors were corrected, was published in February 2006 mIRC 6.17 which brought in addition to numerous other changes also support for UTF -8. In July 2006 mIRC 6.2 is released, which brought not only improved support for UTF -8, other scripting capabilities and more options in designing the user interface with it. The little dusty -looking finish was with mIRC 6.3 (August 2007) and 6:31 (November 2007) adapted by new icons and a new, more modern logo.

On 30 July 2010, Khaled Mardam - Bey mIRC 7.1 published the first fully Unicode -enabled version of mIRC. This biggest change in the history of mIRC - there were more than 120,000 lines of code changed - introduced support for Universal Plug and Play and the IPv6 protocol.

Extensions

Since mIRC has only the most necessary features for chatting, there are numerous extensions which offer several tools and additional settings. These scripts are intended primarily for people who often reside on IRC, or for other specific groups.

The best-known, yet active developed extensions are:

  • Gamers.IRC from Gamers.Interactive team
  • Invision

File Server

MIRC also offers the possibility to run a file server via the DCC protocol. For users who want to run such a specialized script as SysReset have been developed that greatly simplify them up.

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