OfficeIRC is an Internet Relay-Chat (IRCX) Server application that will allow IRC clients such as mIRC to connect to your computer as an IRC based chat server.

OfficeIRC is ideal for providing technical support to your clients, internal communications for your business, hosting live events over the net and online communities.

Here are some key features of "OfficeIRC Server":

Advanced Security Protection:
· Keeps your chat server protected from malicious users. Some of these security features include Attack Protection, Channel Protection (Join Flow, Lag and Rate), Flood Detection, IP Spoof Protection and Blocking File Transfers (on selected Client Rules).
AntiBot Verification System:
· An array of bots can pose a high security risk when they are commanded to attack users and channels. This feature is used to prevent malicious bots connecting to your chat server. This is accomplished by the server prompting users to complete an eyesight test during logon.
Full Logging Capabilities:
· Allows you to save channel conversations and user activity to server log files
Change Server Messages:
· Allows you to customise the standard server messages and change them to another language.
Chat Back:
· This feature allows users to read up on recent conversations that has taken place in the channel. Users can query the channel transcript log via IRC and the results are broadcasted into the users channel history window.
Client Connection Rules:
· Allows you to accept or block connections, apply restrictions etc based on network addresses, connecting address / port or credentials supplied.
IP Masking & Ident Lookups:
· IP Masking allows you to protect your visitors from harm (by not disclosing full IP Addresses) so malicious users cannot prey on them, while allowing you to place a valid ban on a masked address.
· Ident Lookups allows you to obtain the username of a person who is connecting from Corporate Networks or University Campuses. Can also be used as a security measure (reducing bounced connections) by only accepting connections running an ident server.
IRCX Fully Supported:
· Support for the Extensions to the Internet Relay Chat Protocol. These include channel owner status (period prefix in member list), Commands ACCESS, PROP, LIST, WHISPER, etc. User and Channel modes such as Gag, Cloneable Channels and Auditorium Channels.
Memorandum Services:
· Allows users to leave messages for people who are not online
Message Content Filtering:
· Searches for words and phrases in channel and private messages and blocks content which is disallowed such as profanity, unauthorised advertising and dangerous file transfer requests (.exe, .bat, .com, .vbs etc).
Multiple Binding TCP/IP Ports:
· Allows you to run your chat server on a specific TCP Port on multi-homed servers
News Flash Broadcasting:
· Allows you to broadcast news and advertisements across your server or network
Nickname and Channel Registrations:
· Allows your users to reserve their nicknames and channels
Restricted Channel and Nicknames:
· Allows you to reserve or disallow the use of certain channel and nicknames
Server to Server linking:
· Allows your server to link with another OfficeIRC server to share connected users and channels to form a network.
Support for channel Except and Invite lists:
· This allows channel hosts to add exceptions to channel bans and invitations only

Limitations:

· 30-day trial
· 50 concurrent user connections