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Zombie
  • In distributed denial-of-service attacks, one of many compromised computers that attacks a victim.
  • n. [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.