Investigators monitor those channels to help catch cybercriminals, and Internet service providers can block traffic to the IRC servers used by zombies in order to thwart attacks, experts have said.

• 调查人员监控这些频道有助于抓获网络罪犯，Internet服务提供商可以阻塞被僵尸（电脑）利用的IRC服务器的交流以阻碍攻击，专家们已经指出。