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Which of the following is the most accurate definition of a botnet? a small text file passed to a Web browser on a user's computer by a Web server destructive software robots working together on a collection of zombie computers via the Internet spider software used by a search algorithm to crawl various Web sites to return a query a common platform used by search engines to index the contents of a Web site a fraudulent e-mail attack that targets a specific person or organization by personalizing the message

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destructive software robots working together on a collection of zombie computers via the Internet

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Botnets are devices controlled via the internet to achieve a goal that requires multiple computers working towards a shared task. e.g. Denial of service attacks and mass email messaging.

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