IRC Bot/Virus- is this possible on a mac?
Hello all
I'm hoping someone can help me with a little problem I am having. My service provider (Rogers cable) is claiming that one of my computers has contracted an "IRC Bot/Virus" (I have three imacs and 1 ibook on my network). I thought this was a windows virus. Is it even possible that one of my macs has this virus? If so, How do I get rid of it?
Maybe they are just trying to get me to buy the anti virus software or something?
Any help or insight would be welcome.
Hello Mr.light,
it is possible that a kind of unix program was installed on your mac, usually IRC-bots. My own experience is that my dutch ISP has shut me (partly) off because of abnormal outgoing IRC traffic. In my case 'they' cracked my password and installed psyBNC. on my Mac with OS X 10.3.9. With this program they can easy hide there activities on the net. psyBNC automagically connects to a certain IRC channel so the hackers can use your internetconnection to do their malicious work. The operators of the channels are most likey also the installers of this kind of software.
U can monitor outgoing traffic with 'Little Snitch'. Most likely the IRC-bot runs as a process without a name or under a different name, use the Activity Monitor (in Utilities) to look for strange processes, google the names of the processes.
also use Console (in Utilities) to read the 'Secure.log"
Cracking of passwords is easy when you are running an ftp server, in combination with short or easy passwords and loginnames and with a bad configurated firewall or router
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Hello,
Im trying to write a irc bot in java. So far it works well. I am trying to test
for a quiet room. If room is quiet I want my bot to say something. Only problem
is that my test for "quiet" are not working. Could someone take a look and
tell me what Im doing wrong.
Thanks,
jd
import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.PrintWriter;
import java.io.InputStreamReader;
import java.net.*;
import java.io.*;
import java.util.regex.*;
import java.util.Vector;
public class MySocket{
Socket socket = null;
BufferedReader in = null;
PrintStream out = null;
InetAddress inaddr = null;
int mpt = 6667;
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PrintStream psOut = (PrintStream) myConnection.elementAt(1);
String command = new String("USER " + "mohadib67854" + " 0 0 :" + "mohadib");
cmdSend(psOut , command);
command = "NICK " + "javabot" + " 0";
cmdSend(psOut , command);
command = "JOIN #bot_test";
cmdSend(psOut , command);
String matchString = null;
boolean end = false;
while(!end){
Pattern pattern = Pattern.compile(".{1,}:End of /NAMES list.{0,}");
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}catch(Exception e){
System.out.println(e);
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String matchString = null;
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}catch(Exception e){
System.out.println(e);
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Pattern pattern = Pattern.compile("^PING.{1,}");
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ping = matcher.matches();
if(ping){
String command = new String("PONG");
cmdSend(psOut , command);
continue;
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/* pattern = Pattern.compile("");
matcher = pattern.matcher(matchString);
boolean quiet = false;
quiet = matcher.matches(); */
if(matchString == null){
String command = new String("PRIVMSG #bot_test :zzz");
cmdSend(psOut , command);
continue;
if(matchString.equals("")){
String command = new String("PRIVMSG #bot_test :zzz");
cmdSend(psOut , command);
continue;
if(matchString.equals("\n")){
String command = new String("PRIVMSG #bot_test :zzz");
cmdSend(psOut , command);
continue;
if(matchString.equals("\r")){
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cmdSend(psOut , command);
continue;
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boolean hello_backwards = false;
pattern = Pattern.compile("^:(.{1,})!.{0,}javabot.{0,}hello.{0,}");
matcher = pattern.matcher(matchString);
hello = matcher.matches();
pattern = Pattern.compile("^:(.{1,})!.{0,}hello.{0,}javabot.{0,}");
Matcher matcher1 = pattern.matcher(matchString);
hello_backwards = matcher1.matches();
if(hello){
String name = matcher.group(1);
String command = new String("PRIVMSG #bot_test :Hello " + name);
cmdSend(psOut , command);
continue;
else if(hello_backwards){
String name = matcher1.group(1);
String command = new String("PRIVMSG #bot_test :Hello " + name);
cmdSend(psOut , command);
continue;
} //close while
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try{
out.println(command);
}catch(Exception e){
System.out.println(e);
}// close cmdSend();
public Vector makeConnection(String inet_string){
try{
inaddr = InetAddress.getByName(inet_string);
socket = new Socket(inaddr,mpt);
in = new BufferedReader (new InputStreamReader(socket.getInputStream()), 1024 );
out = new PrintStream (socket.getOutputStream());
}catch(Exception e){
System.out.println(e);
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String myIn = null;
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try{
myIn = new String(in.readLine());
}catch(Exception e){
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psReturn.add(in);
psReturn.add(out);
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}I believe what you want is a thread that waits for x seconds before doing something (ie say something). If after x seconds the thread hasnt been killed/reset then do something and reset the thread.
Your listen method should reset the thread everytime its called.
when I say reset the thread I mean the thread will be doing a wait() and when it wakes up it should check a flag to see whether or not the room is still quiet. Your listen() method should set this flag.
Thats a broad outline any hoo.
Ted.
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package ircbot;
import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.BufferedWriter;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStream;
import java.io.InputStreamReader;
import java.io.OutputStream;
import java.io.OutputStreamWriter;
import java.net.Socket;
import java.net.UnknownHostException;
import java.util.Scanner;
public class bot {
public static String message;
/* variables */
Socket sock;
OutputStream out;
BufferedWriter writer;
InputStream in;
BufferedReader reader;
static doaction action = new doaction();
String nick = "Gary";
String user = "account 8 * :oHai";
public static String channel = "#malvager";
String ip = "127.0.0.1"; // <-- not the actual ip...
int port = 11235;
/* end variable and object declarations */
public static void main(String[] args) {
bot superbot = new bot();
superbot.connect();
public void connect() {
try {
sock = new Socket(ip, port);
out = sock.getOutputStream();
writer = new BufferedWriter(new OutputStreamWriter(out));
in = sock.getInputStream();
reader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(in));
join(nick, channel, user, writer, reader);
} catch (UnknownHostException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
} catch (IOException i) {
i.printStackTrace();
}// end try/catch
public static void join(String nick, String channel, String user, BufferedWriter writer, BufferedReader reader) {
try {
writer.write("NICK " + nick);
System.out.println("set nick");
writer.newLine();
writer.flush();
System.out.println(reader.readLine());
writer.write("USER " + user);
System.out.println("set user");
writer.newLine();
writer.flush();
System.out.println(reader.readLine());
writer.write("JOIN " + channel);
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writer.newLine();
writer.flush();
System.out.println(reader.readLine());
read(reader, writer);
} catch (IOException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
public static void read(BufferedReader reader, BufferedWriter writer) {
String said;
while(1 == 1) {
try {
said = reader.readLine();
System.out.println(said);
if (check(said) == true) {
print(writer);
} catch (IOException f) {
f.printStackTrace();
public static boolean check(String input) {
message = action.setinput(input);
if (message.equals("I'm awesome")) {
return(true);
} else {
return(false);
public static void print(BufferedWriter writer) {
Scanner input = new Scanner(System.in);
try {
writer.write("PRIVMSG " + channel + " " + message);
writer.newLine();
writer.flush();
} catch(IOException r) {
r.printStackTrace();
}// end class
package ircbot;
import java.lang.String;
public class doaction {
public String setinput(String input) {
int length = input.length();
int control;
String message = input;
control = length - 5;
message = message.substring(control, length);
if (message.equals("!Gary")) {
message = "I'm awesome";
return(message);
} else {
message = input;
return("bad");
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set nick
:lolnepp.no-ip.biz NOTICE AUTH :*** Looking up your hostname...
set user
:lolnepp.no-ip.biz NOTICE AUTH :*** Found your hostname (cached)
joined channel
PING :51AA6A7F
:lolnepp.no-ip.biz 451 JOIN :You have not registered
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set nick
:Malvager.hub NOTICE AUTH :*** Looking up your hostname...
set user
:Malvager.hub NOTICE AUTH :*** Found your hostname
joined channel
:Malvager.hub 001 Gary :Welcome to the Malvager-IRC-Network IRC Network [email protected]
:Malvager.hub 002 Gary :Your host is Malvager.hub, running version Unreal3.2.7
:Malvager.hub 003 Gary :This server was created Sun Oct 26 2008 at 00:01:26 PDT
:Malvager.hub 004 Gary Malvager.hub Unreal3.2.7 iowghraAsORTVSxNCWqBzvdHtGp
Okay yea, can anyoen tell me if the problem is in my code or the server? And if the problem is in the code could you please tell me what to change or point me in the right directin? thanks.kajbj wrote:
youngdeveloper wrote:
What do you mean it doesn't look like a java program..? Sorry, I was watching tv while I was typing. It should say "Java problem" and not "Java program" :)
And yea, I realize it says that, but the steps to register are you enter the nick and the user which both come before that, so I was wondering if anyone with knowledge of how irc works could tell me if there's some other way of registering, or if the problem's in my code.Some IRC servers requires that an admin in the channel creates the user account.
KajOkay, glad to know it was supposed to say program :).
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