IRC-run bot nets are the bane of existence for any help desk monkey; which is why I see this guy as only really creating problems for others like himself. For SHAME!

"From his home and his workplace, Internet telephony firm 3G Communications, between 2005 until early 2006, Schiefer and unidentified co-schemers created a network of compromised computers that they controlled through Internet Relay Chat commands and used the bots to spread malware and to steal PayPal user names and passwords."