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Mon Dec 20 20:31:56 UTC 2004

> Botnets aren't new. They've been prototyped on various IRC networks for 
> years. It started with hordes of linked eggdrop bots for Death Star 
> style privmsg/notice flood attacks on single users (1998? 1999?). When 

For history's sake, most people name BO and netbus as the "original" 
remote control Trojan horses. Those that started all the mess.

Truth be told, that's far from the truth, although history won't care 
much about it.

There were two main "remote" Trojan horses that came before.

One was by MrZ (I think!) who hung around the efnet IRC network and 
created havoc 1, 2 and 3. also known at the time as route32b.exe, mostly.

There was Socket de Troie (sp?), with a cute French GUI interface.

Most botnets back then were indeed eggdrops/energymechs, but the masses 
started.. erm.. massing with script.ini and DMSETUP.exe showing up in 
late 1996.

Then came BO and netbus. The original netbus was actually written in 
delphy if I remember right.. most of these Trojan horses later on, for a 
few years, were written in VB and C (moving from PASCAL).

	Gadi.