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What is a Botnet?

A botnet is a group of computers, mobile devices or Internet of Things (IoT) devices infected with malware and controlled remotely by cybercriminals. The malware is used to do malicious things like send spam emails, harvest credentials, or execute CPU-intensive tasks on the infected device (“zombie”). Oftentimes, hackers use botnets

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What is Antivirus?

Information technology (IT) is the set of computer systems, hardware and software used to store, process and distribute data within an organization. IT technicians are the people responsible for designing, installing, managing and troubleshooting these systems. Antivirus is a type of software that protects computers and mobile devices from malware

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