Re[2]: IRC bot on MacOS
Benjamin Koch <[email protected]> Fri, 22 Apr 2005 22:48:03 +0200
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.security.intrusions |
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| Organization | Private |
| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
Hello Donald, The program called "psybnc" is an IRC bouncer - also known as an "IRC proxy". It is only for hiding the original IP address of the user connected to the IRC network, keep a channel or the user IRC modes. It is also useful because it is like an "answerphone" for offline users. It contains no malicious code - i use it too (for security reasons...) The only matter to be suspicious to this kind of program is: You or an other friendly person with local/ssh access didn't install it. Maybe it is an intruder's work to use your MAC sys as a proxy for maybe a Botnet controlling channel. Best solution is to check if this is installed by a friend or intruder. See the psybnc.conf in the installed directory for more informations: Login data, network and channel names where the bouncer is active are saved there. I hope i could help you -- Best regards, Benjamin mailto:[email protected] _______________________________________________ Intrusions mailing list [email protected] http://www.dshield.org/mailman/listinfo/intrusions