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border="0" bgcolor="#000000" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="0"> <tr><td> <table width="100%" border="0" bgcolor="#ffffff" cellpadding="10" cellspacing="0"> <tr><td> <table width="100%" border="0" bgcolor="#ffffff" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="0"> <tr><td colspan="100"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20090825132506im_/http://static.quakenet.org/www/images/spacer.gif" width="473" height="1" border="0"></td></tr> <tr><td>  <img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20090825132506im_/http://static.quakenet.org/www/images/contenttopic_columns.gif" width="91" height="20" border="0"><p>  <tr><td><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20090825132506im_/http://static.quakenet.org/www/images/spacer.gif" width="473" height="30" border="0"></td></tr> <td><font id="headline"><font size="+1">Different Client versions on QuakeNet, November 2002</font></font>  <font id="author">by froo</font><br> <font id="datetime">Friday 27. December 2002 at 22:57 GMT</font><p> <font id="newstext">Since we are curious souls, the QuakeNet staff made a network wide <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090825132506/http://www.irchelp.org/irchelp/ircprimer.html#DCC" target="_blank">CTCP</a> version request at non-peak hour in the beginning of November 2002 that hit all connected clients at that time (don't try this at home, folks :p) <br> <br> We sorted the results and present them below, for your viewing pleasure. <br> <br> <table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="1"> <tr><th width="70" align="right">clients</th><th width="70" align="right">%</th><th width="10"></th><th width="150" align="left">client</th></tr> <tr><td align="right">52 984</td><td align="right">63,39%</td><td> </td><td>mIRC - <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090825132506/http://img.quakenet.org/misc/worms.help.quakenet.org/stats/mirc.html" target="_blank">older versions</a></td></tr> <tr><td align="right">16 344</td><td align="right">19,55%</td><td> </td><td>mIRC - v6.03</td></tr> <tr><td align="right">1 520</td><td align="right">1,82%</td><td> </td><td>irssi</td></tr> <tr><td align="right">940</td><td align="right">1,12%</td><td> </td><td>Trillian</td></tr> <tr><td align="right">781</td><td align="right">0,93%</td><td> </td><td>xchat</td></tr> <tr><td align="right">45</td><td align="right">0,05%</td><td> </td><td>BitchX</td></tr> <tr><td align="right">39</td><td align="right">0,05%</td><td> </td><td>ircII</td></tr> <tr><td align="right">18</td><td align="right">0,02%</td><td> </td><td>epic</td></tr> <tr><td align="right">3</td><td align="right">0,00%</td><td> </td><td>LiCe</td></tr> <tr><td align="right">10 907</td><td align="right">13,05%</td><td> </td><td>others</td></tr> <tr><td align="right"><b>83 581</b></td><td align="right"><b>100%</b></td><td> </td><td><b>total</b></td></tr> </table> <p> Most people seem to run a Microsoft Operating System (ie: Win95/98/ME/2000/XP), those not are listed <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090825132506/http://img.quakenet.org/misc/worms.help.quakenet.org/stats/os.html" target="_blank">here</a>. <br><br> NB: Versions of mIRC prior to v6.03 may be vulnerable to security exploits, see <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090825132506/http://worms.help.quakenet.org/mirc.php" target="_blank">http://worms.help.quakenet.org/mirc.php</a> <br><br> UPDATE: An <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090825132506/http://img.quakenet.org/misc/worms.help.quakenet.org/stats/misc.html" target="_blank">expanded list</a> of other clients/bots and various scripts.</font> <br> <br> [ <a href="comments.php?sid=1&id=78">22 comments</a> ] </td></tr> <tr><td><br><b>Columns written by </b>froo:<ul> <li><b>Different Client versions on QuakeNet, November 2002</b> <br><font id="columndate">Friday 27. December 2002</font> </ul></td></tr>  </td></td> </table></td></tr></table></td></tr></table></td></tr></table></td></tr></table></td></tr></table>   </td> <td><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20090825132506im_/http://static.quakenet.org/www/images/spacer.gif" width="2" height="1" border="0" alt=""></td> <td valign="top">     <table border="0" bgcolor="#000000" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="0"> <tr><td> <table border="0" bgcolor="#797B7A" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="0"> <tr><td> <table border="0" bgcolor="#333333" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"> <tr><td><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20090825132506im_/http://static.quakenet.org/www/images/boxtopic_stats.gif" width="122" height="19" border="0"></td></tr> <tr><td><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20090825132506im_/http://static.quakenet.org/www/images/spacer.gif" width="1" height="1" border="0"></td></tr> <tr><td><img hspace="6" vspace="4" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20090825132506im_/http://static.quakenet.org/www/images/currently_online.gif" width="70" height="8" border="0" alt="Currently online"><br> <center><font id="conline">174069</font></center> <img hspace="6" vspace="4" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20090825132506im_/http://static.quakenet.org/www/images/user_peak.gif" width="45" height="8" border="0" alt="User peak"><br> <center><font id="usrpeak">243389</font><br> <font id="peakd">(Tuesday 08. 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