Talk:Botnet

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 Definition:  A set of compromised computers which can collectively provide services to a "bot herder". [d] [e]
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Positive botnet application?

I would not call a company using its own PCs for testing a "botnet", but this Computer World story does: http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9174539/Microsoft_runs_fuzzing_botnet_finds_1_800_Office_bugs

In Network World, I believe, there was an article on cloud networks suggesting the Conficker botnet had more hosts than Google or Amazon, and thus the largest cloud computing network. Is that a negative cloud application? Clearly, there are definition problems in distributed computing! Howard C. Berkowitz 13:31, 2 April 2010 (UTC)

Just broadband?

Should we say broadband alone, rather than singling out ADSL? I regard ADSL as a declining technology. Howard C. Berkowitz 12:18, 29 April 2010 (UTC)

How to manage effects?

DDOS is certainly a botnet effect, but so is spamming and the like. Should there be an effects and economics section? Howard C. Berkowitz 12:18, 29 April 2010 (UTC)

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