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zombie n. 1.
[Unix] A process that has died but has not
yet relinquished its process table slot (because the parent process
hasn't executed a wait(2) for it yet). These can be seen in
ps(1) listings occasionally. Compare orphan. 2. A
machine, especially someone's home box, that has been cracked
and is being used as part of a second-stage attack by miscreants
trying to mask their home IP address. Especially used of machines
being exploited in large gangs for a mechanized denial-of-service
attack like Tribe Flood Network; the image that goes with this is
of a veritable army of zombies mindlessly doing the bidding of a
necromancer.
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