I had sent an email to the author of that article, here it is:

"Just wanted to say that your article seemed, at least to me, more
shock based.  True, that version of Unreal ircD had a "trojan"
backdoor inside, but with any OS, regardless, these backdoors can be
written in at anytime by anyone.  This doesn't classify itself as a
"Trojan", this is more of someone out there wanted to put something in
it to gain control of a server whenever someone used this daemon.
Unreal ircD is usually not the ircD of choice so it looks to me this
is more of a VERY limited backdoor intended to attack a very small
(and i mean VERY small) percentage of server admins.  This is not
something that would affect a server by looking at a web page or
something of that nature.  So can you please tone down the article to
at least defcon 1 instead of defcon 4 or 5 please.. :)"

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