[orng]

Anyone who has played Pandemic 2, or similar games where you control a virus intent on killing all humans, knows that the most effective strategy is to spread as far as possible with as little symptoms as possible before mutating into a killing machine. Apparently Hajime has update capabilities, so perhaps it is too soon to call the creators vigilantes?

[aaronchall]

That's true, and a lot of effort is being poured into it.

I hope that this activity is being sponsored by victims of botnets or their governments to reduce malicious infections, since the Internet of $#!^ has no incentive. This may be the best case scenario.

You describe the worst case scenario. I hope you're wrong, but only time will tell.

[brodie78382]

Hajime is Japanese for 'beginning' - just saying.

[CLGrimes]

This is a great point. While reading this, I thought it was Miari 2.0, but was pleasantly surprised to read that the creator(s) works as a benevolent vigilante. If (one of) the botnet creator(s) decides to become malicious, it will have a large network at it's disposal.