Computer Care Tech Tips

Bots are commanded to travel the internet and conduct DoS attacks (Denial of Service), scrape websites for email and phone numbers, perform php injection attacks against websites (attempting to hack and change the coding on a webpage).Your computer could be actively seeking information to aid an identity thief to steal information and credit card numbers from unsuspecting people.Bots collect information and then, without your knowledge, transmit that information to the writer of the bot. more »