5 bots appeared on my AIM buddies list today. I'm using Pidgin (http://www.pidgin.im/) So far no messages from them so I'm not really bothered but it is puzzling if AOL deny responsibility.

http://joelajackson.blogspot.com/

http://www.profgilzot.com/

There's information about the other bots there too.

Using Trillian 2.0....noticed the AIMbots loading first before any of my contacts today. Didn't give much thought to it... until I read El Reg's article...matching name for name the mysterious bots I now have!

...am I being...watched?! O.o

I got rid of the regular bots from my buddy list as soon as they appeared. I'd never use them anyway...

They appeared on my buddy list this morning as well. I am using Miranda IM. I simply assumed they were new bots like the Moviefone bot, so I deleted them.

Yup, noticed them on my ichat, but thought it might be something to do with all the WWDC07 rooms that were about.

Ian

It's an exploit related to the aimfight site. It's a simple matter to look up the buddy lists that your account is on, and a slightly more obscure method to add, remove, or delete from those lists. I've seen it done personally.

Talk about old news! This is nothing new, I've been seeing random AOL bots poppoing up for as long as I can remember.

[11:03:32 PM] Prof Gilzot: A rectangle has an area of 26 square inches. What is one possible value for its perimeter?

(A) 6.5

(B) 13

(C) 26

(D) 28

(E) 54

*Sam does some math*

High-School algebra tells us that C, D, or E are all valid answers.

I don't know where these test-prep questions came from, but D was wrong, that answer was E.

I say that a width and length of (7 - (23)^(-1)) and ( 26 / (7 - (23)^(-1)) ) seem to work just fine for a perimeter of 28 and an area of 26.

I decided I would share that with the creators or the tutors, and Googling prof gilzot yielded a stunningly small ONE Google "o" of results, half of which were foreign.

On http://www.profgilzot.com/ there was no 'contact us', nor any email addresses at all for that matter.

Silly silly people.

Looks like our lizard overlords are already teaching us to interact with their underlings. Makes for better population control, I think.

I just deleted them and the AIM Bot group. I don't need nannying, thank you very much.

initially thought I'd been hacked -

then did a quick google for AIM bots

tried to chat to them

they proved moronic

deleted entire bot group

tbh get more fun from my hotpoint

xxx