TCP 6667 Connections in Vista

[Peace]

I have just installed Vista Ultimate and noticed that on startup it always trys to connect to several IP address on TCP port 6667.

one example;
TCP x.x.x.x:49249 66.252.9.95:6667 SYN_SENT

I have noticed this after checking my firewall logs and saw all the denied traffic on this port.

I ran several Spyware cleaners and also AV scans local and online but nothing was found.

Does anyone know what these connections are ???

Thx

Peace

 

[NathanE]

6667 is usually IRC traffic. But IRC is also used for plenty of botnets and other trojans to communicate with their controller.