What is a botnet? We talked recently about what a bot (short for robot) is (usually a computer that’s been compromised to do bad things quietly in the background). But what’s a botnet? They’re both related. A botnet is…wait for it…a network of bots. Yup, it’s a collection of computers that could be on entirely different networks (heck, different continents), all running the bots, the same forms of malware.

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