maherphil - 3:48 pm on Jan 26, 2007 (gmt 0)

he said 25% were available to be USED in a botnet.

Ah, I see. Thanks for the clarification Bill, this makes sense now.

So what can be done? It seems like all the botnets have one thing in common, they all need to ping a site through a connection to the internet. Is there monitoring software that would watch for these pings, and then send that data off to a spamhaus like repository to analyze the aggregate data and then zap the bot code installed on my local machine?

You botnet masters are prolly roflyao at my obvious noobness in this subject and over simplification, lol. But seriously, how can 'Johnny Noob' detect if his computer is making unauthorized internets requests?