IBM introduces Anti-Worm toolset

Masquerades as a susceptible computer network, then traps viruses and denies access to that network by the computers that are trying to send the worm(s).

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Hmm, not really anything new. Honeypots have been around for ages - and are usually pretty easy to spot. I have one myself, in fact. It pretends to be a Windows 98 box with a bunch of open ports - which of course go nowhere.

Be interesting to see how successful it is against worms.

 

of course you know they are doing something a little more complicated than that.