Should I block it?

90%

90% of PCs block this file from running.

Possible reason:

Multiple malware detections

Additional versions

7.25.0.0	40.00%
7.25.0.0	13.33%
7.22.0.0	6.67%
7.19.0.0	20.00%
7.17.0.0	6.67%
7.14.0.0	6.67%
6.21	6.67%

mirc.exe

mIRC by mIRC Co. Ltd. (Signed)

Remove mirc.exe

Version:	6.21
MD5:	52f9f2101923e84dd146fd1058d97b60
SHA1:	3481fd1da332ecc5332116356b56c4252f37f1af
SHA256:	c1fcf3e3d89d549b90261fa166537ebaedee2cb6962c3ce28287b9f4db4eba71

Warning 7 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:	6.21
Size:	1.98 MB (2,076,672 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

Eros-Script

IRCHeaven

7% remove

Eros-Script is a script based on mIRC. Eros-Script is build for use on the IRCHeaven network. The script is also useble for another networks.

mIRC

mIRC Co. Ltd.

11% remove

“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] linhost05.comws.net (77.74.52.14:6697)

Malware detections

Based on 40+ industry antivirus scanners, 7 of them detected the following malware.

Antivirus engine	Engine version	Detection
Antiy Labs AVL	2.0.3.7	Client-IRC/Win32.mIRC.gen
avast!	6.0.1289.0	Win32:Mirc-Z [PUP]
Comodo Internet Security	15862	Application.Win32.mIRC.621
Ikarus	T3.1.4.0.0	not-a-virus:Client-IRC.Win32.mIRC
Kaspersky	9.0.0.837	not-a-virus:Client-IRC.Win32.mIRC.621
Kingsoft	2013.1.8.219	Win32.Troj.Generic.(kcloud)
ViRobot	2011.4.7.4223	Client.IRC.mIRC.2076672

Resource utilization

(Note: statistics below are averages based on a minimum sample size of 200 unique participants)

Averages

CPU
Total CPU:	0.00027492%	0.028634%
Kernel CPU:	0.00015920%	0.013761%
User CPU:	0.00011572%	0.014873%
Kernel CPU time:	37,908,243 ms/min	100,923,805ms/min
Memory
Private memory:	7.3 MB	21.59 MB
Private (maximum):	15.54 MB
Private (minimum):	5.79 MB
Non-paged memory:	7.3 MB	21.59 MB
Virtual memory:	117.18 MB	140.96 MB
Virtual memory (peak):	152.27 MB	169.69 MB
Working set:	15.32 MB	18.61 MB
Working set (peak):	15.54 MB	37.95 MB
Resource allocations
Threads:	5	12
Handles:	328	600
GUI GDI count:	90	103
GUI GDI peak:	111	142
GUI USER count:	102	49
GUI USER peak:	473	71