Oh great
I am a security professional, researching botnets and publishing papers on them is what I do. None of my machines are infected with bots and none of them are sending spam. But several of them occasionally do a very good impression of an infected machine so that I can gather information about new techniques and trends in the underground communities.
I guess I will be spending a large amount of time talking to the VM help desk repeatedly explaining the difference between joining a botnet and being infected.
And considering the fact that a large number of newer botnets use HTTP based command and control communications specifically to try to prevent people like myself from spying on them, how exactly are VM and the associated watchdog organisations going to filter out the botnets from legitimate traffic?
Biting the hand that feeds IT
