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A new FCC-backed initiative will gather real ISP data on infected bot machines, but will it make a dent on the botnet scourge?

Feb 24, 2012
By Kelly Jackson Higgins

One of the more elusive things about a botnet -- besides the fact that dismantled botnets often get reinvented and resurrected in some new form -- is getting an accurate count of the number of infected machines unknowingly doing the dirty work of the botnet operator.

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