Botnet is a network of Web robots designed to launch DDoS attacks, exercise financial or identity fraud or to disrupt legitimate Web services.

Botnet is created when numerous individual PC across the world get infected with Internet worms or Trojan horses that are under command and control of organised criminals on the Web.

An infected PC becomes a "zombie" and is used to conduct crime on the Internet without the knowledge of the computer user.

Cyber criminals can can control the botnet, often consisting of thousands of thousands of "zombies" remotely.

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