Cruiser Posted January 8, 2007 Report Posted January 8, 2007 I was scanning my AntiVirus log today and found some new entries. I have outgoing IRC connections blocked. To my suprise I see that uTorrent.exe is attempting to connect to IRC every couple of hours. I have not been able to find anything in the maunal or on this forum about it. Why does uTorrent attempt to make an IRC connection? What is its purpose?
spork985 Posted January 8, 2007 Report Posted January 8, 2007 It doesn't. One your peers that you are downloading from probably used the port for IRC for their incomming connection. I presume that it is safe.
Lord Alderaan Posted January 8, 2007 Report Posted January 8, 2007 Indeed people could have setup their torrent port between 6660 and 6669 which are the most common IRC server ports.Those users are weirdo's for using that port and your firewall is just guessing by labeling it IRC traffic.
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