A new service is being offered by security company Sophos, which purports to alert businesses if a computer on their network has been compromised by being zombied. While what it actually does is tell you whether a computer on your network has suddenly been found sending spam and/or listed on an anti-spam blacklist, which isn’t the same thing (it doesn’t actually check your computers for zombieware, for example), for many businesses they are funcationally equivalent.

And in this time of trying to get computer owners to take some responsibility for the bad actions of their naughty computers, it’s still a nifty idea.

Here’s Sophos’ information about the service:

Sophos ZombieAlert Service notifies companies about their spammer-controlled computers.

New automated service identifies exploited and hijacked computers on business networks.

Lynnfield, MA - Sophos, a global leader in network security, announces the availability of Sophos ZombieAlert, a new alert service that identifies “zombie” computers on an organization’s network. Zombie computers are infected machines that give control to unauthorized and remote users, allowing them to send spam from the computer or to launch e-mail-based Denial-of-Service (DoS) attacks against Web sites….

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