The thing is, I'm certain any one of these would probably work fine, if I could figure out what's causing the abort. And if its not the firewall, then it must be a virus scanner or other security system I have running. There WAS one of those little pop-up windows that asked me if I wanted to continue blocking mIRC (just like the others were), which I duely said "unblock" to. Perhaps there's something else with that I need to do?Unable to connect to server (Software caused connection abort)
[Edit]Ah, I think I might have found something... while trying to connect, I opened up one of the security softwares I have, and noticed that it was scanning files from mIRC... checking now...
Yep... seems like that was what it was. Just required me to realize that the blasted software that UTulsa forces me to use is screwing with IRC...[/edit]