bots and botnet

What is bots and botnet?

I had referred few articles about the bots and botnet. According to techtarget.com botnet is a group of computers that operate automatically that has been set by the owners to forward data transmission such as spam, emails and also viruses in Internet. It is also called as zombie army. According to the article also this threat are home based and act as a master spam and virus inventor.

Another source, techfaq.com also came with the same definition but is also stated that bots or botnet operates in the same network environment that share program processing. Its also known as malware or malicious software. Once a computer was affected by the bots, it will become a zombie and accept whatever commands that were order by the bots commander.

The size of a botnet can be small or in big number. It is depends on the complexity of the bots software that was created. A large botnet may be composed up to 10 000 zombies while a small botnets consist of only 1000 zombie. An interesting fact stated that the owner of the zombie did not realize that their computer was affected and being remotely controlled and exploited by other people normally tru IRC.

There are many types of botnet. Some are automatically spread tru the net by using scripts. Because of this kind of capability, some people categorized it as computer viruses. Anyway it is not all botnet has this kind of capability.

next i wil continue it tomorrow.. as i am sosleepy...n when lai can write my own code since i know its only written using c++ajee....howpowerful is C++ ... rugi korg x belajo.. aku suh belajo x mo buat sungguh2...