How BOTs/BOTNETs Work

How BOTs/BOTNETs Work
A BOT is short for web robot and is an automated software program that behaves intel￾ligently. Spammers often use BOTs to automate the posting of spam messages on news￾groups or the sending of emails. BOTs can also be used as remote attack tools. Most often,
BOTs are web software agents that interface with web pages. For example, web crawlers
(spiders) are web robots that gather web-page information