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Originally posted by nathan_f
in some cases its the same people that have the downloads available that host the server, but most of the time it's a certain 'warez group'
all the bots people download from in those irc channels are hacked machines, usually win2k boxes with no defaults admin password. favorite target is univeristy machines and .jp lines (nice and fast)
they scan subnet after subnet looking for machine to take over.. and dump gigs of files to a subfolder in c:\winnt. then a program they've uploaded runs making it connect to irc and begin distrubuting warez
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This explains it then. Still no profit but same mentality as virus writers I guess.
