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Message: <blockquote data-quote="XCorvis" data-source="post: 2090441" data-attributes="member: 1265">Naughty naughty. How did he bust you? Did he happen to see it when he walked by, or did he just show up and tell you to stop? The reason is, a sysadmin can tell (if they're paying attention) if someone is using IRC on their network. This is true of most all regualr installed apps and most web clients. The web clients are really just simple IRC programs that run in your browser. They actually open an IRC connection from your computer, which the admin can see with network utilities. Really, he should just block the port in the firewall if he wants to stop that kind of thing.Anyway, the only feasable way for you to IRC now is to get a shell account on a linux/unix server somewhere and connect to it using SSH. Over the SSH connection, you can run BitchX or EPIC IRC (or whatever). To the admin, it will look like an SSH connection, even if you're IRCing with it, because your IRC session comes from the computer you're logged into. Check with your ISP - they may offer shell accounts. You'll need to learn a little bit about unix, but it won't be too bad.Note that, depending on his paranoia level, he may bust you for using SSH if you don't have a work related reason for it. You might be S.O.L. here.</blockquote>