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Legal botnets[edit]

The term botnet is widely used when several IRC bots have been linked and may possibly set
channel modes on other bots and users while keeping IRC channels free from unwanted users. This
is where the term is originally from, since the first illegal botnets were similar to legal botnets. A
common bot used to set up botnets on IRC is eggdrop.

Illegal botnets[edit]
Botnets sometimes compromise computers whose security defenses have been breached and
control conceded to a third party. Each such compromised device, known as a "bot", is created when
a computer is penetrated by software from a malware (malicious software) distribution. However, it
could also be someone (or a spider) that hacks into a computer. The controller of a botnet is able to
direct the activities of these compromised computers through communication channels formed by
standards-based network protocols such as IRC and Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP).[1]
Botnets are increasingly rented out by cyber criminals as commodities for a variety of purposes

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