Place the Following Steps of a Botnet Attack into Correct

question 20

Multiple Choice

Place the following steps of a botnet attack into correct order.
-Third

• A)A spammer (or criminal) buys access to the botnet from the botmaster
• B)The botmaster or spammer sends instructions to the infected PCs using the IRC server, which triggers them to send out spam messages to other servers
• C)A botmaster sends out viruses to infect computers
• D)Infected PCs follow instructions to log in to an IRC server

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Definitions:

Linear Relationship

A type of correlation where there is a constant rate of change between two variables.

Dependent Variable

A variable in an experiment or study whose changes are determined by the presence or manipulation of one or more independent variables.

Independent Variable

A variable in statistical analysis that is manipulated or categorized to observe its effect on a dependent variable.

Standard Deviation

A measure that is used to quantify the amount of variation or dispersion of a set of data values.