mIRC and Zone Alarm

[Lan C]

I was having trouble getting the mIRC to work and discovered that my Zone Alarm firewall was blocking it. I had to go to the IM Security option and click on the advanced button to uncheck the defaulted "Block IRC".

 

[wade1]

Its not uncommon to have port issues with routers as well. I don't recall the ports that mIRC uses offhand, but maybe Bryan can tell us in case anyone has problems.

Wade

 

[ToeCutter]

I think the main ports that IRC uses to connect are 6660-7000

Here's a page from mIRC's site about firewalls and proxies http://www.mirc.co.uk/help/proxies.html