Fight botnets with Eggdrop and BlackTools

Fight Botnets with Eggdrop Bot and Blacktools Blacktools can be downloaded from TCLScripts.net. Be sure to check out the forums for the latest information. If you are not familiar with BlackTools, be sure to read this and other guides. It's incredibly powerful, and...

Stopping bot, spammer, flooder attacks on Undernet

Update: Check out this article on using Eggdrop and Blacktools to fight these bots. I've been watching a channel get attacked by bot-nets, being flooded day after day, for about two weeks. The attacker is spamming nasty stuff for hours at a time, flooding the channel...

IRC Etiquette

IRC has users from all over the world, from all different cultures, all languages, all ages, and all economic backgrounds. It is important to follow some basic rules of etiquette so everyone can participate and engage effectively. Most established channels publish a...

mIRC Clone scanner script for Ops

This is a really cool little mIRC script. It lets you right-click in a channel and select "Clone Scanner", and it instantly reports on any hosts with multiple nicks in that channel. It does this so quickly by using mIRC's Internal Address List (IAL). When you first...

Protect Yourself on IRC

This is not intended to be a guide to hiding from the legal aspects of using IRC. This is to help you protect yourself on IRC against scammers, stalkers, and worse. Also, these are guidelines - they aren't really rules. However, I'm going to call them rules because...

Roleplay vs Cybersex

This is an old conversation. People have been debating roleplay vs cybersex for decades, likely since the very first cybersex session. My view is quite simple, and I think it bears out when reading all the google results 🙂 Cybersex is mostly simple acts of sex....

IRC Tips for Beginners

IRC Tips IRC (Internet Relay Chat) is an old technology that allows people to create and join chat rooms (known as #channels), and have group conversations. People can also send and reply to private messages, and much more. IRC can be very confusing for new users, so...