already in process of coding my own senuke.
The 'original' SE Nuke is written in VB6, the new one will be a VB.NET affair. As stated it uses the web browser control that comes with VB6 which is, of course, IE. Its actually a very good piece of programming, if you have ever tried to write a stable multi threaded app using vb6 you will know what i mean![]()
SENuke could have been better done with httpwebrequest.
Faster? Perhaps. However you are forgetting that spambot scripts employed by a ton of websites (Google, to say the least) catch websites that don't execute the JS they have embedded. Therefore, the best way to avoid anti's is to use the MSHTML browser control.
but the end product is going to be worth it.
That may be true, but can be properly included if you're programming the bot. Decent website debugging with wireshark or httpanalyzer will fix this. As you may know, javascripts are browser based. That means it has got nothing to do with whatever is going on with the client and the server. It only affects the way you submit get and post commands.
I've recently done a complete Yahoo Answers bot in HTTP Web Requests, and it is just so much easier to handle threading.