The Washington Post has an interesting article about [Shadowserver](http://www.shadowserver.org/news.php “Shadowserver home page”), a group of volunteers who battle large, remote-controlled herds of hacked personal PCs, also known as [botnets](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Botnet “Wikipedia”).

[Read](http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/03/21/AR2006032100279.html) (Washington Post)