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- noun Internet A
malicious hacker who controls abotnet .
Etymologies
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Examples
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After that, the botmaster can direct this fresh bot to carry out myriad criminal activities -- everything from spreading spam to stealing data to hijacking online banking accounts.
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Each Sninfs-infected PC carries instructions to follow a Twitter account set up by the botmaster ahead of time.
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The botmaster can now direct your botted PC to carry out myriad criminal activities — everything from spreading spam to triggering promotions to buy fake antivirus subscriptions to hijacking your online banking account.
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Next comes a program that turns the PC into an obedient "bot," controlled by a "botmaster."
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This wormhole is then used by the attacker to install coding that turns your PC into an obedient “bot,” reporting to a command-and-control server operated by the “botmaster.”
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"This perpetuates the tactic and also gives the botmaster another machine to use for future burst attacks," says Sam Masiello, director of threat management for McAfee's MX Logic messaging security division.
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As a noun, it refers to a group of computers called zombies that have been compromised by worms, Trojan horses or some other type of backdoor software and are secretly being used by a controller, called a bot herder or a botmaster.
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Thousands of visitors are still blissfully unaware that their PCs are listening for instructions from the botmaster — the person responsible for remotely controlling hundreds of thousands of computers.
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As a noun, it refers to a group of computers called zombies that have been compromised by worms, Trojan horses or some other type of backdoor software and are secretly being used by a controller, called a bot herder or a botmaster.
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Another thing a botmaster can do is direct all of those computers to send spam all at once to millions of computers all at once.
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