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-A denial of service attach
prevents a machine from carrying out its main duties -
- for example, preventing a web server from serving up pages.
+A denial of service attack
prevents a machine from carrying out its main duties - for example, preventing a web server from serving up pages.
-A distributed denial of service attack normally means many clients are sending repeated requests to a machine to saturate its bandwidth, preventing legitimate requests to get through.
-These clients
are known as "zombies".
+A distributed denial of service attack normally means many clients are sending repeated requests to a machine to saturate its bandwidth, preventing legitimate requests to get through. These clients have typically been infected with a virus and are sent instructions regarding when and where to attack. They
are then
known as "zombies".
