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Botnet - What does it mean?

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botnet

English

(wikipedia botnet)

Noun

(en noun)
  • (Internet) A collection of zombies that are controlled by the same cracker; a collection of compromised computers that is slowly built up then unleashed as a DDOS attack or used to send very large quantities of spam.
  • * 2010 , "Long life spam", The Economist , 20 Nov 2010:
    • Then they blacklisted addresses used by spammers. In response, senders started using botnets (networks of otherwise innocent computers).

    See also

    * botherder

    Not English

    has no English definition. It may be misspelled.