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Rumors have been going around for a while already on Undernet about the introduction of a Chanfix service introduction. A bot with the nick chanfix was online, but with a realname “Chanfix is not yet available on Undernet.”

Yesterday, Undernet officially announced the new service with a network wide notice inviting users to join #Class and learn about the new service:

-LiveEvent- The UnderNet User Committee will be presenting a LiveEvent concerning ChanFix for users of the UnderNet and IRC. To attend, please type /join #Class now. Thanks, and please do not reply

The website of the Undernet IRC network is back online. We asked one of the members of the webteam, Magic, why it took so long to get it back online: “It’s been down for about 2 month now, the reason it went down has to do with that the person who hosted it for over 4 years changed job and that seems to have effected the Internet connection he had from the ISP he worked for.”

Magic is also the webmaster of mIRC.net, which was hosted on the same machine, and is offline since then as well. We reported about that on the 10th of October, and in a comment Magic explained that the Undernet website was hosted on the same machine.

Undernet added a new command to its channel service. The command sets wether you allow other people to add you to new channels.

Requested by users and opers, it is especially usefull for those people who keep finding themself added in channels without their knowledge.

To set, use /msg x set noadduser ON, and to unset use /msg x set noadduser OFF

Undernet added a new command to its channel service. The command sets wether you allow other people to add you to new channels. Requested by users and opers, it is especially usefull for those people who keep finding themself added in channels without their knowledge. To set, use /msg x set noadduser ON, and to unset ...

Last weekend an account of a high level CService admin got compromised which caused some havoc on this top 5 IRC network. CService is Undernet’s channel service and is responsible for the channel service bot on the network, X.

For the account to be compromised the malicious person used social engineering and got the ISP of the admin in question to trust him and supply him with the password of the email account of the admin.

A little typo in a GLine caused major effects on the Undernet network today.

The result of the typo was that the entire network got GLined with the reason set for the user the GLine was meant for: infected! Advertising infecting web sites. Clean this computer! http://www.moosoft.com http://housecall.trendmicro.com/ )

As a result of the events the entire network fell apart, and servers had to be reconnected one-by-one. On the IRC statistics website NetSplit.de Undernet dissapeared completely from the Top 25 list, where it normally can be found in the top 3.