I still remember back in March I read about that there are people actively hunting and shutting down botnets. Now some of the people believed they are losing the war..... wtf.

It is interesting to read about how sophisticate these botnets are. These networks behave almost like living organism, even wage war among each other. But on the other hand, when you realize what these creatures of binary do and its impact on our life, you hate it like your worse enemy.

Personally, I know my server has been hitted by spams, likely orginate from zombies in one of those botnets. But I am yet to spend time using honeypot or similar thing to see what else been hitting me. None the least, you can tell they are very systematic. One example is they are using Google Images search result to find sites to hit. I'd say it's very "impressive", assuming it's automated.

So, what we can do? I can think of so many way to curb the problem.....
- Make sure all PCs are patched
- Scan your PC for virus/malware/worm/bot regularly
- Hunt these infected PCs down and fix/isolute them until they are fixed
- Track the botnets and cut its C&C off
- Arrest, procecute those cyberc$#@!ks, regardless of nationality (or with a global effort)
- Have Microsoft fix their buggy software
- ISP to be more proactive on shutting down infested PCs
- More intelligent in the network with tools to lesson botnets and its evil traffic

It's all the old saying: Protect, Detect, React

So, why we still have such a big f%#$! mess?

Stop the bots
Fact