Trend Micro has declared war on botnets, opening a zombie PC pest control service for ISPs and other big network providers.

The security software firm's weapon of choice uses in-house-developed software called the Behavioral Analysis Security Engine (BASE). This is bundled with a hardware appliance and per-seat pricing to form the InterCloud Security Service (ISS). A team of Trend Micro researchers identifies botnets for this service.

ISS goes live in Q4 and will have some as yet unnamed first day customers trading up from the beta program, Trend says. Pricing is not on the table at time of writing.
According to Trend's CTO, Dave Rand, ISS represents the first phase of a multi-year project for the company. "We expect to kick butt on botnets," he declared today. But he readily acknowledges that the enemy is resourceful and the fight won't be easy.