https://www.emsisoft.com/en/blog/27233/what-is-a-botnet/ Straight-talking security advice from the Malware Experts Fri, 18 Nov 2022 12:24:24 +0000 hourly 1 https://www.emsisoft.com/en/blog/27233/what-is-a-botnet/#comment-789846 Wed, 21 Mar 2018 09:26:19 +0000 http://blog.emsisoft.com/?p=27233#comment-789846 […] lies behind most malware. A centrally controlled network of several thousand hijacked PCs (a botnet) offers a massive amount of computing power, which can be used in a variety of different ways or […]

]]> https://www.emsisoft.com/en/blog/27233/what-is-a-botnet/#comment-786036 Thu, 25 May 2017 03:11:00 +0000 http://blog.emsisoft.com/?p=27233#comment-786036 Thank you Christian and the Emsisoft team for the regular and informative newsletters. It annoys me greatly when people complain about scams, spam, trojans, malware, and viruses and they do very little or nothing stop them, even with all the information available relating to computer security.

]]> https://www.emsisoft.com/en/blog/27233/what-is-a-botnet/#comment-786030 Wed, 24 May 2017 22:56:00 +0000 http://blog.emsisoft.com/?p=27233#comment-786030 I am receiving a lot of bounced email purportedly being sent my a domain I own. The bounces go to my domain and are passed on to me. However, I assume this is not due to my pc being part of a botnet, but due to my domain being used as the from address for spamming purposes.

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