Note: In popular terminology, a âparanoidâ personality is characterized by suspicion and distrust of others; a tendency to look for hidden meaning behind other people's actions; argumentativeness; complaining; low tolerance for criticism; and a constant display of one's own talents, accomplishments, independence, and rationality.
bot 1. n. 1. The parasitic larva of a botfly. 2. bots (used with a sing. or pl. verb) A disease of mammals, especially cattle and horses, caused by infestation of the stomach or intestines with botfly larvae.
A Botnet is able to control the computers it targets by using a malicious software, after which the computers and devices are used to perform cybercriminal activities such as Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks, spam emails, and data theft. Also referred to as Zombies.