botnet
n.— «In February German magazine c’t reported how it was able to buy access to infected machines—commonly described in the parlance of spammers as “BotNets”—from virus writers.» —“The illicit trade in compromised PCs” by John Leyden The Register (U.K.) Apr. 30, 2004. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
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