The paper ˇ°Defeating bots on the internal networkˇ± from McAfee Avert Labs published in the Feb 2007 issue of Virus Bulletin describes setting up an IRC honeypot on a network using minimal resources and requiring little maintenance to be used as an early warning system to proactively alert botnet activity. Also discussed is using the internal IRC honeypot to gain control over infected machines and removing the bot from infected machines.