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by bbowman49

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What are mIRC32 and hexplore (a DOS program)? I noticed they appeared after I switched to a cable modem service but the company says these programs are not part of their software. Immediately after the install there were reports that my computer wasbeing used for illegal probing (I have since installed a firewall)

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by sergey kovzik

mIRC32 is nice program to connect to IRC network - this is net of chat servers around world with large amount of chat channels. you can even create your own channel for private or public usage. more info: www.mirc.com for program, www.undernet.org -for IRC technology

hexplorer... 1. there was game with such name. 2. there was tool "Homepage Explorer" - it shows links inside HTML page. 3. hex-code viewer tool for programmers - you see files in their binary-hex representation.

probing? sure. if you run mIRC it will try to connect to IRC servers. If connections are incoming - nothing surprising too. There are web/ftp indexing spiders - they scan IP-addresses in hope to find out new server to include in search engines.

Sincerely, Sergey
Brainbench MVP for Win98 Administration

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