botnet

Any ideas on creating a botnet? I had a small one once in HS, just for giggles made in VB and it was shit, the IRC server/net went down too

SOooo what are some pro-tips on creating a bot for a botnet, distribution will not be of concern, mainly control techniques

You should make your targets and your controlling host all nodes on the Tor network. Then have the targets connect via a hidden service to the controlling host. This means that it is automatically encrypted due to Tor, and that it's much harder to identify you.

As for the mechanics of it, just use an IRC server like most other botnets, and have your bots respond to commands on a channel they join. Customize it to remove any identifying information from commands such as WHO and WHOIS, and make sure that your channel is set to +m, as you don't want random bot reverse-engineers coming on to your IRC server and issuing commands that they found in the disassembly.

I don't write bots and have no interest in doing so, but I've spent quite some time actively researching botnets and how they work as I find these hidden networks to be quite fascinating. Most of the ones I've found have been used primarily for information harvesting - e.g. keylogging credit card numbers and scanning the PC for email addresses to be added to spam lists.