As the pool of computer users has increased, ways are emerging
As the pool of computer users has increased, ways are emerging to illicitly profit off of them. The computer of a naive user may be forced into participating in a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack aimed toward a designated target and timed to fire off with hundreds of thousands of others so as to overwhelm the victim. Alternatively, users’ broadband computers can be turned into unwilling web sites for pornography or other products, or made into relays for unsolicited email (spam).