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OCR: 164 SECTION CHAPTER What is Any software that can automate a task or autonomously execute task when commanded to do so is called an intelligent agent. Because an intelligent agent behaves somewhat like robot it is often called bot Good bots perform variety of helpful tasks such as scanning the Web to assemble data for search engines like Google Some bots offer online help while others monitor chat groups for prohibited I behavior and I language. Bad bots, on the other hand, are controlled by hackers and designed for unau- thor ized or destructive tasks. They can be spread by worms or Trojans. Most bad bots are able to initiate communications with central server on the Internet to receive instructions computer under the contro of bad bot sometimes referred to as zombie because carries out i ...