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Malicious vs Botherder - What's the difference?

malicious | botherder |

As an adjective malicious

is of, pertaining to, or as a result of malice or spite.

As a noun botherder is

(internet) a malicious hacker who controls a botnet.

malicious

English

Alternative forms

* (obsolete)

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Of, pertaining to, or as a result of malice or spite
  • spiteful and deliberately harmful
    • He was sent off for a malicious tackle on Jones.

    Synonyms

    * malevolent * evil * See also

    Derived terms

    * maliciously * maliciousness * malicious mischief

    botherder

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (Internet) A malicious hacker who controls a botnet.
  • * 2007 , Larry Chaffin, Craig Schiller, Anton Chuvakin, Infosecurity 2008 Threat Analysis
    • After securing the computer against antivirus tools, previous hackers, and detection by the user, the botherder might check to see what else might be here.
  • * 2009 , John Hoopes, Virtualization for security
    • Most bots use a central C&C server for communicating with their botherder , and normally they use the standard IRC protocol for that purpose.

    Synonyms

    * botmaster

    Anagrams

    * English words with consonant pseudo-digraphs