There's actually published work on this (to Nature's credit, this is fairly recent work). This system called Vigilante [1] (incidentally from Microsoft Research) does it all: automatice detection of worm, automatic distribution of signatures, automatic generation of "filters" and protection mechanisms. In the paper, the author's don't use honeypots, but there's nothing in the system that precludes their use.
I use kopete (http://kopete.kde.org/ which is basically KDE's equivalent of gaim (yes, I know one can run gaim just as well on KDE too, but read on). Being a KDE user, I prefere kopete over gaim because of its excellent integration with KMail and the rest of the PIM suite. Evolution users might feel the same way towards Gaim. Voice chat and video support is being actively worked on, including support of Y! quirks like "Buzz!". All in all, I have nothing to complain about the state of IMs in Linux -- I have helped several friends switch to gaim/kopete with no complaints.
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There's actually published work on this (to Nature's credit, this is fairly recent work). This system called Vigilante [1] (incidentally from Microsoft Research) does it all: automatice detection of worm, automatic distribution of signatures, automatic generation of "filters" and protection mechanisms. In the paper, the author's don't use honeypots, but there's nothing in the system that precludes their use.
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[1] http://research.microsoft.com/research/pubs/view.
Published in this years ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP)
seriously, the moderators need some help. This story is neither new, nor has any interesting analysis/discussion.
I use kopete (http://kopete.kde.org/ which is basically KDE's equivalent of gaim (yes, I know one can run gaim just as well on KDE too, but read on). Being a KDE user, I prefere kopete over gaim because of its excellent integration with KMail and the rest of the PIM suite. Evolution users might feel the same way towards Gaim. Voice chat and video support is being actively worked on, including support of Y! quirks like "Buzz!". All in all, I have nothing to complain about the state of IMs in Linux -- I have helped several friends switch to gaim/kopete with no complaints.