News from IRC-Junkie

It took almost 2 years for a new release, and even then it consists mostly of bugfixes of which one fixes a serious issue.

A 40-year-old channel operator of a child pornography IRC channel received 8 years prison.

Version 2.8.7 released the 20th of last month has been superseded with 2.8.7a Zed announced on the XChat homepage .

As a recent post also indicated, botnets are considered one of the main Internet security threats. Researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology have proposed a new piece of software that can detect botnets, named BotSniffer.

Last month a new bug have been found in IRCu family IRCd's which can be exploited leading to a crashing server.

Security Service Provider Arbor Networks studied the amount of junk traffic over the total sum of Internet traffic, and found some remarkable figures when it comes to IRC traffic.

After being based on a modified IRCu for a long period of time, AustNet moves to an InspIRCd based IRCd. IRC-Junkie asks AustNet's Praetorian about the how, why and what of this change.

OK I know, this headline is one you've seen a few times before the past few months. In my rush to get phpBB out of the door I've probably took less time with the way things looked then I should have.

Obviously that was a lame attempt at an April Fool's joke >:)

Starting this month, the IRC-Junkie Daily will be available to subscribers.

The QuakeNet IRC network did a major overhaul of its major channel service Q.

A new version of the popular XChat client for Windows has been released.

Many people wish to have their own IRC network. Once a basic network is setup they advertise the network to gain users, in the hope many will find and start using it. But what if they abuse your good intentions and start using your infrastructure to host bots engaged in illegal activities? Then things can start to become a real life nightmare. In this article we follow Dewd, from network admin to a suspect criminal with a 10 year prison sentence hanging above his head.

Another EFNet server adds supports IPv6.

I've made some changes to the site here and there. I hope it fixes some of the problems you guys had.

The Virginia Supreme Court affirmed the sentence against the first convicted spammer in the USA, saying anti-spam laws do not violate freedom of speech.

Here we go, all should be working OK. And not a moment too late either!

Its time for a site overhaul again ...