FUNDAMENTALS OF COMPUTER

Detailed explanation-1: -Botnet is also known as ‘Zombie Army’. A botnet is a number of Internet computers that have been set-up to forward transmissions including spam and viruses to the computer without the knowledge of their owners. It is a type of Security Threat.

Detailed explanation-2: -(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).

Detailed explanation-3: -A bot, in this case, is a device infected by malicious code, which then becomes part of a network, or net, of infected machines all controlled by a single attacker or attack group. A bot is sometimes called a zombie, and a botnet is sometimes referred to as a zombie army.

Detailed explanation-4: -zombie computer, computer or personal computer (PC) connected to the Internet and taken over by a computer worm, virus, or other “malware.” Groups of such machines, called botnets (from a combination of robot and network), often carry out criminal actions without their owners’ detecting any unusual activity.

Detailed explanation-5: -Each individual connected computer in a botnet is called a zombie because the computer or device owner is generally unaware that their machine is mindlessly performing malicious actions.