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Don’t Let Your PCs Join the Zombie Hordes

A ZOMBIE computer or “bot” lets an unauthorized person gain control over it. A hacker. a malicious Website or e-mail, or a tainted USB thumb drive is typically the source of infection. The zombie (or bot) patiently waits to be summoned to perform some nefarious task often as a part of an army of tens of thousands, or even millions, of zombie PCs, called a botnet.

Attackers can access lists of zombie PCs and activate them to help execute DoS (denial-of-service) attacks against Websites. to host phishing Websites, or to send spam e-mail messages. Tracing an attack back to its source leads only to an unwitting victim rather than the true attacker.