From Dumas Walker@1:103/705 to All on Sat Jan 20 10:41:58 2024
A couple of weeks ago, one of my users reported that his Malwarebytes was warning him of a potential Trojan when he tried to connect here via telnet. At the time, I assumed it was because I have iptables set up to redirect the port from 23 to the "non root" port that Syncrhonet is listening on.
However, I have since had a fellow sysop who connects here to exchange mail report the same thing. Because the bink port that binkit listens on is not a "needs root" port, I don't have that one redirected by iptables. He also tried it via telnet and sent me the error message. I cannot see what Trojan it thinks is on this end -- I don't think the message says.
I have asked him to resend the message as text so I can share it. Malwarebytes was actually blocking our systems from exchanging mail.
I did scan with ClamAV and all it reports are some "potentially unwanted applications" -- some DOS programs in my download directories that are apparently compressed with PKlite.
As I only have linux machines, I don't have any experience with Malwarebytes. Has anyone else run into this -- is it a case of Malwarebytes just not liking BBSes or something else?