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botnet (roBOT NETwork) Also called a "zombie army," a botnet is a large number of compromised computers that are used to generate spam, relay viruses or flood a network or Web server with excessive requests to cause it to fail (see denial of service attack). The computer is compromised via a Trojan that often works by opening an Internet Relay Chat (IRC) channel that waits for commands from the person in control of the botnet. There is a thriving botnet business selling lists of compromised computers to hackers and spammers. See spambot, zombie and spam 2.0.Want to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit the webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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No references found | In fact, botnets accounted for nearly 43 percent of all click fraud in the third quarter of this year, the study, released Thursday, found. Botnets are composed of computers that have been taken over by an entity without the owner's knowledge. AVG Technologies have announced the half-millionth download of its AVG LinkScanner[R] software, a free product that protects consumers against web-based security threats and prevents their computers from being recruited for botnets like the ones that brought down Twitter and Facebook last week. |
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