Yes it's short for ROBOT. Been arround for a decade..
some good, some bad, some indiffrent..
the web is richer, the same , poorer for them
It's a bit of code written to go off and do somting on its own..
in this case it will run round the internet looking for vBulletin forums
once it finds a vB forum it will pass that back to another bot
that bot will then see if it can create a user account.
if it does it will pass that to a spam bot and the spam bot will start creating random accounts and post up pre-defined posts.
it's crude, but given the speed of the internet and computers it can get results relativly quickly..
if countermeasures such as e-mail verification are implemented then an advanced bot will sort that..
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