[lug] Weird directory in users home dir

[Calvin Dodge]

On Tue, Jun 26, 2001 at 10:48:14AM -0600, Eric Kilfoil wrote:
> 
> An IRC bot is a program which connects to an irc server and joins an irc
> channel.  If you were to go into a channel on IRC, it's very possible that
> some of the people in that channel are actually just software :).

And some DDOS programs use that method to get their commands - they listen for specific instructions on an IRC channel ("Attack amazon.com!"), then go off to do their dirty work.

Read http://grc.com/dos/grcdos.htm for a (somewhat breathless) description of a DDOS attack, including the IRC bots used in the attack.

Calvin
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