[tonylucas]

Exactly that, it was known as the ‘script.ini’ problem, the download directory was changed as well.

It would attempt to send to people as they joined a channel.

More info: http://www.irchelp.org/security/si.html

[jondumbau]

there was the funny magic string that would make half a channels modems disconnect too.

[mickeyp]

Ah, yes, I remember that. I think it was because the modems didn't differentiate between the various layers in the transport stream and took anything resembling low-level modem commands to be gospel.