[CLUE-Tech] IRC Bots

[Adam Bultman]

That's a *normal* IRC bot.


A friend of mine had his windows box 'rooted', and they installed an IRC 
bot.

The bot signed onto a specific channel inhabited entirely by IRC bots.  
The bots were other computers that were rooted, and they basically 
reported in what they had, and their progress at rooting other machines 
(directives were given to the bots for further orders, etc). 

So, the Master bot sat on the channel and told the IRC bots, connected 
to machines, to go root other machines, which would then sign on to IRC...

I signed onto the channel briefly that the bot was on - wow.  Lots of 
bots, lots of activity. It was scary.


Adam


dan radom wrote:

>* Todd A. Gibson (tgibson at augustcouncil.com) wrote:
>  
>
>>Hello,
>>
>>This morning I discovered that someone exploited a hole in some PHP
>>software on my server and loaded an IRC Bot
>>(http://www.eggheads.org/).  Fortunately I caught it in under 24
>>hours, patched the hole, and scubbed away the nastiness.
>>
>>I have only used IRC once or twice so I understand it generally, but I
>>don't know what the purpose of an IRC bot is.  Anyone care to
>>illuminate me?
>>
>>    
>>
>
>In general they maintain channel order and enforce bans and rules.  There
>are scripts that do just about anything from providing weather info to
>sharing files and such.
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