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Botnet malware: What it is and how to fight it

Posted on April 9, 2025
Malware or malicious computer code has been around in some form or other for over 40 years, but the use of malware to take control of a group of computers that are then organized into something called a botnet is more a twenty-first century phenomenon.
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