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An aimbot or autoaim is a type of computer game bot most commonly used in first-person shooter games to provide varying levels of automated target acquisition and calibration to the player. They are sometimes used along with a triggerbot, which automatically shoots when an opponent appears within the field-of-view or aiming reticule of the player.
An Internet bot, web robot, robot or simply bot, [1] is a software application that runs automated tasks on the Internet, usually with the intent to imitate human activity, such as messaging, on a large scale. [2] An Internet bot plays the client role in a client–server model whereas the server role is usually played by web servers. Internet ...
Any script that does nothing other than add a link to a page to a menu, panel or toolbar belongs to § Shortcuts. Any script that makes an edit to a page (i.e. increases the user's contributions) or changes the appearance or behavior of the edit form ( action=edit/submit ) belongs to § Editing .
An IRC bot performing a simple task. An IRC bot is a set of scripts or an independent program that connects to Internet Relay Chat as a client, and so appears to other IRC users as another user. An IRC bot differs from a regular client in that instead of providing interactive access to IRC for a human user, it performs automated functions.
IRC scripts are a way of shortening commands and responding automatically to certain events while connected to an IRC network.There are many different scripting languages for different types of IRC clients: ircII, BitchX, HexChat, mIRC, Visual IRC, Bersirc, and others have their own scripting languages, many of which share common features and syntax and therefore are easily portable from one ...
Once the bot has been approved and given its bot flag permission, one can add "bot=True" to the API call - see mw:API:Edit#Parameters in order to hide the bot's edits in Special:RecentChanges. In Python, using either mwclient or wikitools, then adding bot=True to the edit/save command will set the edit as a bot edit - e.g. PageObject.edit(text ...
(Discusses 1997 mIRC script attack.) Ken Dunham, Jim Melnick (2008) Malicious Bots: An Inside Look into the Cyber-Criminal Underground of the Internet. CRC Press. p. 7-31. (In-depth analysis/reverse engineering of mIRC-script-based malware bot) Peter Szor (2005). The Art of Computer Virus Research and Defense. Pearson Education. Ch. 3.7.7.