<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >IRC Bots</TITLE ><META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.7"><LINK REL="HOME" TITLE="Linux IRC mini-HOWTO" HREF="index.html"><LINK REL="PREVIOUS" TITLE="IRC Servers" HREF="servers.html"><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="IRC Bouncers (IRC Proxy)" HREF="bouncers.html"></HEAD ><BODY CLASS="sect1" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#000000" LINK="#0000FF" VLINK="#840084" ALINK="#0000FF" ><DIV CLASS="NAVHEADER" ><TABLE SUMMARY="Header navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TH COLSPAN="3" ALIGN="center" >Linux IRC mini-HOWTO</TH ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="servers.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="80%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" ></TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="bouncers.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"></DIV ><DIV CLASS="sect1" ><H1 CLASS="sect1" ><A NAME="bots" ></A >8. IRC Bots</H1 ><DIV CLASS="sect2" ><H2 CLASS="sect2" ><A NAME="AEN387" ></A >8.1. Eggdrop</H2 ><P ><EM >Maintainer:</EM ></P ><P ><EM >IRC Channel:</EM > #eggdrop on Undernet</P ><P >Generally considered to be <EM >the</EM > IRC bot, Eggdrop offers robust channel protection, and is highly customisable through the use of Tcl scripting.</P ><P >Multiple eggdrops can be linked together forming a botnet which can span multiple channels, or even networks. On networks without channel registration services, eggdrops are common feature in almost all large channels.</P ><P >You can get the latest version of eggdrop from <A HREF="http://www.eggheads.org/downloads/" TARGET="_top" > <TT CLASS="literal" >http://www.eggheads.org/downloads/</TT ></A > . Homepage at <A HREF="http://www.eggheads.org/" TARGET="_top" > <TT CLASS="literal" >http://www.eggheads.org/</TT ></A ></P ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="sect2" ><H2 CLASS="sect2" ><A NAME="AEN401" ></A >8.2. EnergyMech</H2 ><P ><EM >Maintainer: Proton</EM ></P ><P ><EM >IRC Channel:</EM > None</P ><P >Early versions of EnergyMech (or emech as it is frequently called), earned a reputation as something of a script kiddie's bot, through it's ability to run multiple bots from a single process (thus allowing less desirable users to load up hundreds of vhosted clones from a shell account). This is a reputation emech does not deserve, since it is really a rather good channel protection bot, and recent versions of emech have restricted this capacity (to max 4 bots). A popular alternative to Eggdrop.</P ><P >You can get the latest version of EnergyMech from <A HREF="http://www.energymech.net/download.html" TARGET="_top" > <TT CLASS="literal" >http://www.energymech.net/download.html</TT ></A > . Homepage at <A HREF="http://www.energymech.net/" TARGET="_top" > <TT CLASS="literal" >http://www.energymech.net/</TT ></A ></P ></DIV ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="NAVFOOTER" ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"><TABLE SUMMARY="Footer navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="servers.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="index.html" ACCESSKEY="H" >Home</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="bouncers.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" >IRC Servers</TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" > </TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" >IRC Bouncers (IRC Proxy)</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >