IRC Defender is a program designed for IRC networks, written in perl. It is highly a modular security service which amongst other things will keep virus and trojan drones from your network, allow you to set akills using regular expressions, and will prevent abuse of CGI:IRC proxies.

IRC Defender supports many IRC daemons including:

• bahamut
• dancer
• hybrid
• InspIRCd
• ircd 2.10
• unreal
• ultimate
• ptlink
• P10 (ircu, asuka)
• TR-ircd
• Dreamforge

IRC Defender is used on many small to medium sized networks.

We welcome third party development of modules, and will include any useful modules in the distribution.

[Edit by Thunderhacker]
New forums are located here

To the skidiots that "hacked" us: (I say "hacked" because there's only a thousand different ways to take over an Invision forum this old that are fully documented with step-by-step instructions that even babies like you can read.) Thanks. I now know for sure that my backup scripts work 100%. You had perfect timing, as you picked the day after the first time in 2 months I ran my backup script to "hack" the forums. Again, thanks.

To everyone else: Normally I wouldn't have even given the clueless lusers the privilege of a response to their stupidity, but in the interest of full disclosure I am reporting that yes, there actually is a moron out there with nothing better to do with his/her time than take over a 5 year old Invision install that in all reality probably has no business being on the internet in the first place.

Everything is back to normal but I've chosen to shut down the old forums again.

(Second time I've had to fix this, it seems these lusers have no life. It's ok, I've got nothing better to do right now, and it only takes a minute to fix.)

In the long standing ircdefender tradition, after an extended period of inactivity, there's another release. 1.5-RC2 will likely be the last RC version before 1.5-Release. Many thanks to all who helped with bugfixes and feature requests.

Below is the changelog


From 1.5-RC1 to 1.5-RC2:

Added German translation of INSTALL file (thanks xomicron (Tom Felb))
Added German translation of README file (thanks xomicron (Tom Felb))
Added German translation of defender.conf.example (thanks xomicron (Tom Felb))
Added changelog (you're reading it!)

Added rough draft of antibear module (file Modules/Scan/antibear.pm)
This module is a work in progress and doesn't work properly right now.

Added verbose control channel message module (file Modules/Scan/verbose.pm)
This module outputs messages in the control channel for the following events:
Channel Joins
Channel Parts
Channel Kicks
Client connects
Client disconnects (quits)
Channel topic changes
Nickname changes
Loading this module also makes the version.pm module report version replies

file Modules/Link/inspircd11.pm
+ Fix FMODE in inspircd11 link module (thanks Wulf @ forums)
+ Fix oper detection to work on OPERTYPE instead of +o (thanks w00t @ Chatspike for the help)
+ Complete overhaul of the regex ladder (changed to if elsif chain, was matching multiple lines)
+ Fixed NICK regex
+ Added structure for handle_quit processing
+ Fixed typo in FJOIN related to nicks (thanks Wulf @ forums)
+ Added code to emulate mode +o on OPERTYPE for other modules (thanks Wulf @ forums)
+ Added structure and support for undocumented KICK (handle_kick)
+ Fixed FJOIN regex (wasn't matching lines with only one nick)

file Modules/Main.pm
+ Added code to parse config file values "OneWord" and "ugly"

file Modules/Scan/message.pm
+ Fixed problem with the nick counter (thanks Wulf @ forums)

file Modules/Scan/version.pm
+ Made one word version ban a configurable option
+ Verbose output of version reply depends on loading of verbose module

file defender.conf.example
+ Added new configuration options

file defender.pl
+ Updated version and release date (I actually remembered this time!)