What is botnet? What is DOS attack?

You will shock to know that your computer or any electronic device can harm another person's website unknowingly. Do you ever heard of  term botnets? As the word defines, bot means robot and net means network . Bots are designed in such way that they are made to do any specific task by itself. Hacker  attach his bot file  anywhere in the internet. And when thousands of people download that file which also contain malicious codes or bot file, Hacker creates a network of bots. And that thousands or millions of bots, together used to hack anyone. Most common hacker do DOS attacks.

What is dos attack? How botnet help hacker to do dos attacks? 

DOS stands for denial for service . When a website is being hacked by this attack, the website deny its services to provide resources to its customers. A hacker damage your resources by creating more traffic to your website. Usually they use botnets. Botnet are network of fake users which bonded with a network to attack frequently to any website. In return, your website's server turn down immediately and the genuine customers may not able to reach your website. Because there is certain limit or bandwidth used by any website like in 1 sec my site can hold 200 visitors and if i overload the traffic more than 200 my website stop working accordingly. So, these network of bots uses victim's IP address  unknowingly and dump your website. Victim device can be any electronic device which  have access to internet or from anywhere get internet connection. Your device can be also a part of botnet team. A hacker may doing this attack due to  business competition or want to take revenge from the website provider.  And it take much expenses to recover from DOS attack for your website.



 Use updated antiviruses . Newly built antiviruses can easily recognise and clean bots from the attached files. It is your concern to protect yourself from any  unwanted files and softwares entering your device. And it is found that more than 20,000 bots  a day enters to electronic devices. Protect yourself from these bots because these bots may configure to control your device . your device can be controlled parallel by the hacker to do any task easily.