Editing Agobot (section)

{{Short description|Family of botnet computer worms}}
'''Agobot''', also frequently known as '''Gaobot''', is a family of [[computer worm]]s. Axel "Ago" Gembe, a German programmer also known for leaking [[Half-Life 2]] a year before release, was responsible for writing the first version.<ref>Infosecurity 2008 Threat Analysis, page 16, {{ISBN|1-59749-224-8}} {{ISBN|978-1-59749-224-9}}</ref><ref>https://www.wsj.com/public/article_print/SB116900488955878543-yrMHYlacFyxijV14BxFZfXeU1_8_20070216.html How Legal Codes Can Hinder Hacker Cases</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Home |url=https://education.wsj.com/ |access-date=2023-03-10 |website=The Face of Real News - WSJ Education |language=en}}</ref>
The Agobot source code describes it as: “a modular IRC bot for Win32 / Linux”. Agobot was released under version 2 of the [[GNU General Public License]]. Agobot is a multi-threaded and mostly object oriented program written in [[C++]] as well as a small amount of [[Assembly language|assembly]]. Agobot is an example of a [[Botnet]] that requires little or no programming knowledge to use.