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Re: Botnet pointer

  • From: Gadi Evron
  • Date: Mon Dec 20 16:50:29 2004 
william(at)elan.net wrote:

Can somebody also share good definition of "BOT" and "BOTNET" for glossary
and description of 2-4 lines? Should I also list it as synonymous with Zombie (bot being more hacker-oriented use and zombie being more toward spammer-oriented use)?
I'd let others define a "botnet".

Drones and zombies (same thing) come to distinguish themselves from regular users. The user is not aware that his machine is running, say, an IRC client. The client itself may appear human, but is completely dead. Just a bot following/awaiting commands.

Usually people call them "drone armies" and "zombie networks", but go figure.. nothing special there.

Basically, these are all ro(BOT)s, but not run by the people whose machine is running their process.

Gadi.