botnet

• Conficker is designed to infect multiple Windows-based computers, creating what is known as a botnet, which can then function in concert to work as a sort of supercomputer - to generate large volumes of spam e-mail, for instance. —  National Business News - Local Business News | bizjournals
• Some security researchers say the botnet is already being broken up and sold off.
• They formed an industry-wide task force to fight the worm, bringing widespread attention that experts said probably scared off the criminals who command the army of slave computers, known as a botnet.
• What probably should happen is that some major world government (US, EU?) should decide that the botnet is a major headache and a threat to national security. —  freshnews.org - most clicked links
• It seems to me that a computer participating in a botnet is already a threat to the public. —  freshnews.org - most clicked links

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