IRC Defender is a security package written in Perl made for small to medium sized networks. Its written in Perl and fully modular. It took some time to release version 1.5. Developer Thunderhacker explains: "InspIRCd became far more popular than he (Brain, ed.) expected and development of Defender got pushed to the side. Shortly after I took over I went back to school, so my schoolwork pushed its development aside. Now that school is out for the summer I will be doing a lot more development." Although newer versions are always available over SVN the team recommends stable releases if stability is important. IRC-Junkie asked what's new in the release. "Along with the addition of a couple of modules this release fixes many bugs that have been found over the months. Aside from that not much of the functionality has changed." "As Defender is primarily a services package for ChatSpike, I am currently working on modifying the InspIRCd link module for their new 1.2 release. There is a copy of the
More
Support this project and others with 1-click micro-donations
