A botnet is accurately described as a network of hijacked computers, often referred to as "zombies," that are controlled remotely by an attacker. These computers are used to perform various malicious tasks, including sending spam emails and launching Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks, without the knowledge of their owners.

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A Botnet Is

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A botnet is

A) a huge number of hijacked Internet computers that have been set up to forward traffic, including spam and viruses, to other computers on the Internet.
B) a piece of software code that inserts itself into a host or operating system to launch DOS attacks.
C) a piece of code in a worm that spreads rapidly and exploits some known vulnerability.
D) a production system that looks like it does real work, but that acts as a decoy and is watched to study how network intrusions occur.

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