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Zombie - Dictionary Definition and Overview |
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Zombie : (noun)
1: a dead body that has been brought back to life by a
supernatural force [syn: zombi, the living dead]
2: (voodooism) a spirit or supernatural force that reanimates a
dead body [syn: zombi, zombi spirit, zombie spirit]
3: a god of voodoo cults of African origin worshipped
especially in West Indies [syn: zombi, snake god]
4: someone who acts or responds in a mechanical or apathetic
way; "only an automaton wouldn't have noticed" [syn: automaton,
zombi]
5: several kinds of rum with fruit juice and usually apricot
liqueur [syn: zombi]
Based on WordNet 2.0
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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.
Based on the Online Dictionary of Computing [Computer_Dictionary]:
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