Could comcast be blocking port 6667 outbound?

[gboyce at badbelly.com (Gregory Boyce)]

On Fri, 2 Sep 2005, Mike Gorse wrote:

> Okay, I think I figured out what was going on.  I had an easily-guessed 
> username/password combination on my computer, and someone came in and 
> installed EnergyMech (I don't know for what purpose), and I suspect that it 
> was doing some that attracted the attention of a firewall that comcast (or 
> possibly my router) set up.  IRC is working for me now that I killed it.

I would definitly suggest reinstalling the system from scratch and 
applying all relevant security updates.  I'm sure that EnergyMech isn't 
the only rogue process installed.

--
Greg