I'm not a networking person,so no idea about earlybird worm detection system in linux. I have came across "Nagios" a monitoring tool.
If you think, you have nice ideas ,that can be useful to atleast one user ..then just go ahead and write the tool.
Every one has different needs ,that why we have so many linux distros. So all the best for your new innovative application,hope that will help users. 
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