8.1. Eggdrop
Maintainer:
IRC Channel: #eggdrop on Undernet
Generally considered to be the IRC bot,
Eggdrop offers robust channel protection, and is highly customisable
through the use of Tcl scripting.
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.
You can get the latest version of eggdrop from
http://www.eggheads.org/downloads/ . Homepage
at
http://www.eggheads.org/
8.2. EnergyMech
Maintainer: Proton
IRC Channel: None
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.
You can get the latest version of EnergyMech from
http://www.energymech.net/download.html . Homepage
at
http://www.energymech.net/