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It can be difficult for users to know what effect a piece of software is to have on their computers. Herdict, a nascent project in distributed software, will use end users' computers to gain an understanding of how software affects them. Tim Hwang, a researcher at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society involved with the project, hopes that it could one day be refined to recognise the behaviour of malware and advise users accordingly. He explains how the system operates in this article. The rapid growth of malware online and the increasing sophistication of internet filtering tactics by governments and institutions pose formidable threats to the continuation of the web as an open arena for exchange and innovation. Existing research methods, while able to give a rough picture of the problem, are increasingly limited in their ability to provide data useful to average users. Herdict, a software project generated from the collaboration of a diverse group of scholars, represents a new distributed approach towards dealing with these developing macro-level issues in the net.