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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
bot .
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Examples
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The worm installs a botnet management program that gives the intruder the ability to use the iPhone just like they would a botted Windows PC.
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NetWitness 'report on what it found -- 68,000 account logons stolen from 75,000 botted PCs in corporate networks -- drew big headlines in the Wall Street Journal and New York Times.
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A cyber gang has begun experimenting with setting up free Twitter accounts, then sending out Tweets from the popular micro-blogging service that are really coded instructions to botted PCs to carry out criminal activities.
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What all that means is that some of the botted PCs carrying out the denial of service attacks subsequently began to wipe out all application files -- and ultimately self destructed.
Computer attack may not have originated in North Korea after all 2009
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This is standard operating procedure for attackers, called botmasters, who specialize in assembling and deploying huge armies of botted PCs to distribute spam, steal data, conduct denial of service attacks and hijack online financial accounts.
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By comparison, the Storm worm that spread via viral spam messages in 2007 is believed to have peaked at about 1 million botted PCs.
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The botmaster can now direct your botted PC to carry out myriad criminal activities — everything from spreading spam to triggering promotions to buy fake antivirus subscriptions to hijacking your online banking account.
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Bkis Security has just disclosed analysis showing that 166,908 botted ...
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The botted PCs following this account automatically clicks on the Tweeted link and thus installs Bancos.
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Bkis Security has just disclosed analysis showing that 166,908 botted PCs from 74 countries were used in the attacks.
Computer attack may not have originated in North Korea after all 2009
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