{"id":87614724,"date":"2010-07-13T13:16:00","date_gmt":"2010-07-13T21:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/?p=87614724"},"modified":"2010-07-13T13:22:13","modified_gmt":"2010-07-13T21:22:13","slug":"chatting-with-a-virus-bot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/?p=87614724","title":{"rendered":"Chatting with a Virus Bot"},"content":{"rendered":"

Guy I used to work with suddenly started talking to me after about a year and a half of nothing.\u00a0 Looks like he got hit by what we at EA used to call an “MSN IQ Test.”\u00a0 Gotta give them credit for incorporating that INTO the bot itself.<\/em> Remember kids, just ’cause someone you know sends you a link, doesn’t make it safe.<\/p>\n

ViralBot
\n1:29 PM
\nhello!<\/p>\n

Zen Render
\n1:41 PM
\nHey man, how goes?<\/p>\n

ViralBot
\n1:42 PM
\ni just took an iq quiz<\/p>\n

Zen Render
\n1:42 PM
\nOkay… The one for the interview process at work there?<\/p>\n

ViralBot
\n1:42 PM
\nHi!
\n1:42 PM
\nyeah, I was brighter than I am<\/p>\n

Zen Render
\n1:43 PM
\nI suspect that perhaps you’re a bot, or something, instead of actually Mr. (ex-coworker)<\/p>\n

ViralBot
\n1:43 PM
\nyou should look if u can do better than me, http:\/\/{badlink}<\/p>\n

Zen Render
\n1:44 PM
\nYeeeaaaah… Not so much. {ex-coworker}, sorry you got hit, man. Good luck.<\/p>\n

ViralBot
\n1:44 PM
\ni bet you cant haha
\n1:45 PM
\nhey!<\/p>\n

Zen Render
\n1:49 PM
\nHello, Bot McBotterperson. Your programmer should have taught you that most people don’t say HI\/Hey!\/Hello three times in a five minute period.<\/p>\n

ViralBot
\n1:49 PM
\ni just took an iqtest<\/p>\n

Zen Render
\n1:51 PM
\nSo did I. You failed yours, I appear to have passed mine.<\/p>\n

ViralBot
\n1:51 PM
\nyeah, I was smarter than I am<\/p>\n

Zen Render
\n1:52 PM
\nThat would be a neat trick, to be smarter than you are. Maybe if you were smarter than you THOUGHT you were, that’d be something, but mostly, you’re just coming off like a broken record.<\/p>\n

ViralBot
\n1:52 PM
\nyou have to look if you can do better then me, http:\/\/{badlink}<\/p>\n

Zen Render
\n1:53 PM
\nWhat’s ironic is that I know I can do better than you, by not clicking anything at all.<\/p>\n

ViralBot
\n1:53 PM
\nim sure you cant haha<\/p>\n

Zen Render
\n1:53 PM
\nEliza, is that you?<\/p>\n

ViralBot
\n1:53 PM
\ntake it now while i take a shower!<\/p>\n

Zen Render
\n1:55 PM
\nLet’s see if you know how to respond to anything a human would, shall we?
\n1:55 PM
\nMarco!<\/p>\n

ViralBot
\n1:56 PM
\nBRB! \u00a0 take that test!<\/p>\n

Zen Render
\n1:56 PM
\nEye zuzpekt yoo arr prrapps not Henglitch schpeeking…
\n2:05 PM
\nAww, did you forget what you were doing, and erase yourself? Maybe {ex-coworker}’s shut down the account now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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