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Originally Posted by andygrif
Are you referring to robots.txt? This is a file in the root directory of your web host which tells the search engines which directories they can and cannot search to place in their directories.
I'm not saying they don't, but I haven't heard of spammers using it, as they would (of course) need to know that domain existed in the first place to search it - in which case they can just use that domain to spam.
More info here: http://www.robotstxt.org/ |
No, I'm not. The file was called "bot.txt" and was not in a root directory. I opened the file in a text editor to view it. In it was code (perl script) to connect to an IRC channel, complete with login name and password. I checked the file out and found that it was used by spammers.
From F-Secure website:
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This IRC-based backdoor-worm was found on August 17th, 2005. The backdoor provides unauthorised access to an infected computer and also has the capability to spread to remote computers using the PNP exploit."