Date: Mon, 2 Dec 2002 19:02:46 -0500 From: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> To: Wayne M Barnes <stabilizer@klentaq.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: psybnc and IRC hack Message-ID: <8D82F5D2-0652-11D7-A8AC-000A27D85A7E@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <20021202175505.A1525@klentaq.com>
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On Monday, December 2, 2002, at 06:55 PM, Wayne M Barnes wrote:
> What is "an IRC bouncer"? Is it something I can use to protect
> against this hijack of my system?
"psybnc" stands for something like "PSYchotic irc BouNCer", although my
memory is imperfect. I believe it's used to offer filesharing of warez
via private IRC channels, using your machine's diskspace and network
connectivity. It was almost certainly installed by whoever cracked your
machine; quite probably there will be a rootkit which has been installed
as well.
> I am running recent FreeBSD 4.7.
Please try to figure out what vulnerability your machine was compromised
by.
Security problems which affect the current release version are of a high
priority.
-Chuck
Chuck Swiger | chuck@codefab.com | All your packets are belong to
us.
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