Why is Tekcoin connecting to the LFnet irc server? This is a security problem, that's why the irc connections have been disabled in the bitcoin protocol updates.
any information on this?
I'm guessing this is what Kaspersky is flagging as a trojan. Breakbeater's useful post shows how to override it, but that won't help when Kaspersky or other AVs refuse to download the files at all.
No answer yet for why Tekcoin connects to IRC in the first place? Was this just added? If so, why? (especially if it can be overridden without consequence using breakbeater's conf file suggestion).
Thanks!
Most coins have irc included, it has been around for a very long time. Not sure what the surprise is about? We disabled it on Fluttercoin recently but we still need to go through and remove it from the code, it is no longer used as a sync option on our end. Use of DNS seeds is an option to identify nodes unless you hard code a few in a conf file. Last I checked tek source didn't have any dnsseed nodes listed, so irc may still play a role.
(May have added some during the fix)