Last week's Community Byte we got off to a great start! We had a few people build our IRC bot, and all went well. We had some great contributers, ideas, and people willing to learn. So, needless to ...

A new Internet Relay Channel (IRC) bot, which is built with the help of the Perl language-based Shellbot, is targeting Windows-based environments, along with Ubuntu Linux and even Android devices, ...

Welcome to the song you'll be humming for the rest of the week. This link was posted in our forums and after watching it a few dozen times I'm convinced it's the best thing I may have ever seen in my ...

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One of the most famous IRC bots is Eggdrop, and it's still actively developed today. An Eggdrop bot is basically a small program you run on a server that connects to IRC 24/7 with a certain nickname, ...

I'm looking for a good Windows IRC bot. Preferably, one that can run as a channel service.<BR><BR>I'd like channel/user protection and auto-op/voice. Extra stuff like URL parsing, !google type ...

The average life span of a command and control server in an Internet Relay Chat (IRC)-based botnet is less than two months. And these machines and their drones that make up a botnet are typically ...