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. -------------+-------------------+----------------------------------- "The human race's favorite method for being in control of the facts is to ignore them." -Celia Green To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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