Tracking Botnets Just Got Harder

Security researchers often use ‘honey-pots’, computers without anti-virus protection containing monitoring software, to conduct research on botnets. The honey-pot computer becomes infected with a virus that would turn it into part of the botnet. However, the system is set up so the commands sent to the computer are monitored and the computer does not actually follow the commands of the control computer.

This research effort, which is one of the…