'CohoBot'

Some of you may be familiar with the growing Social Network, Twitter. Well it appears that a bot named The 'CohoBot' is targeting AIM and Twitter users.

Here is a passage from Wikipedia.org regarding this bot:

"On September 5, 2008, users began to report being contacted by bots with names of the form "<adjective>Coho". Coho bots respond when Project Upstream's connection request site is used. Since this Web site previously solicited a response from Salmon and Trout bots, this indicates that they're essentially the same bot. Another suggestive factor is the fact that Coho are a type of Salmon. Coho bots are directed at Twitter updaters. More recently, there has been a few reports of LiveJournal and Digg users as well.

Sometime in early January 2008 the Coho bot started word-filtering chats into old-english speech. Many common words including "I" and "to" are being substituted"

If you are a victim of this, then you can simply "unsubscribe" by typing $optout. Once done, the bot will never contact you again.

I've had several annoyances with this bot. Here is the latest I've had:

As you can see, I have since removed myself from the list.

If anyone else has had this problem or is currently experiencing it, please leave a comment as I'd love to hear about it.

As always, find me on the following:

Blog: http://www.honkingantelope.com
Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/lewisbeechey 

Lewis Beechey