It was interesting the first few times watching them. Sometimes the commands are not even authenticated so you could do fun things like write a text file saying

It was interesting the first few times watching them. Sometimes the commands are not even authenticated so you could do fun things like write a text file saying their computer was infected and then open it with notepad... or other things.[0] You aren't going to find many large scale botnets that still use IRC though. It is really amateur hour CnC. [0] It probably is not really advisable to do even 'helpful' actions such as that, but when you are young you do careless things.