Could comcast be blocking port 6667 outbound?

[Mike Gorse]

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.

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