IRC bot latches onto Plug-and-Play vuln
John Leyden,
The Register
2005-08-16
The Microsoft Plug-and-Play [a href="http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/Bulletin/MS05-039.mspx"]vulnerability[/a] exploited by the ZoTob worm has been harnessed to create an IRC bot. [a href="http://www.f-secure.com/v-descs/ircbot_es.shtml"]IRCBot-ES[/a] uses the vulnerability to spread instead of more common vectors such as Windows RPC security vulns.