Chances are, if you are a user of a large IRC network (such as DAL and EFnet), you will know what im talking about.

Usually a user spams a website (eg: <sexc69> *** see me on webcam @ http://www.geocities.com/infected_site) to other users. The users, not knowing any better, click on the link and are infected -- they start spreading the link as well, usually without their knowledge.

Although i have had contact with these things for quite a while, i have never actually "lived on the edge" and visited the spammed websites. I was wondering then, exactly *how* does the client (usually mIRC) get infected through a simple click? Or have i missed something?

Regards