[LaunchBox IRC Channel]

Did you even read the article? The botnets are being controlled thru IRC. The malware is not. So resuming, you get infected thru a website or email, and then when the malware is already installed on your PC, it opens a IRC connection (you don't even need to have a IRC client installed) and starts getting commands from there. So, IRC by itself is not doing any harm to your computer...

[LaunchBox IRC Channel]

How long have you been out of the IRC community? I haven't seen a DDos or mentions of hacked computers in IRC in years. There are way more lucrative ways of hacking a computer than IRC.

[LaunchBox IRC Channel]

Hi. I'm hereby suggesting we make a #launchbox (possibly on FreeNode) so we can make chat between launchbox'ers in an easy way. Just my 0.02 cents. I'm gonna see if I can pre-register the channel. Whaddya think?[sp_show_poll id="1"] I took the liberty and founded the channel, so come visit us here

[Translating LaunchBox]

I can do European Portuguese if interested.