Tuesday, March 19, 2013

How To Raise A Robot Army For Mayhem And Profit

How do Trojan viruses infect your computer? Where does spam come from? How do hackers gain control over your computer?

Often times, the answer is via botnet.

A botnet is nothing more than a small program that people install (usually without realizing it) that “phones home” to another computer and carries out whatever instructions it’s given.

On it’s own, a single infected computer isn’t much to write home about. But when you’re talking about 100 or 1,000 (and often times even more) computers, a hacker has a lot of computing power at his disposal.

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