Zeus Botnet Down But Not Out 67
harryjohnston writes "The Register points out that the takedown of a significant number of Zeus command-and-control servers, which we discussed earlier, was a short-lived victory, as about one-third of the affected servers were back on the net in less than 48 hours." Adds itwbennet: "Just hours after network connectivity to Troyak was severed the ISP peered with a new upstream Internet service provider named Ya. The next step will be to 'de-peer' Troyak from its new service provider, either an ISP named Nassist or its upstream provider, Hurricane Electric, said a researcher familiar with the matter. 'We have taken some of their territory, they are trying to out flank us,' the researcher said via IM. 'We are going to win this one — we have 'em boxed in.'"
Sometimes headshots aren't enough (Score:2, Funny)
n/t
Car Analogy (Score:1, Funny)
So the Zeus is like a Toyota. You get a fix for it but it turns out they'll just keep going anyway.
Well I'm sold. (Score:5, Funny)
Do you have to share the command and control server with other users? Or do they have a "private command server" option?
(On a side note- will twittering help my business?)
Re:Car Analogy (Score:1, Funny)
Just no man, no. Let it go...
Re:Car Analogy (Score:3, Funny)
Car analogies
I don't know how to quit you.
Re:Here's how to defeat Zeus... (Score:5, Funny)
Rule #2 (Score:4, Funny)
Re:This is so cool (Score:1, Funny)
Might work if you're fighting Charlie. It don't work if you're fighting Marines.
"All right, they're on our left, they're on our right, they're in front of us, they're behind us...they can't get away this time"
- Lewis B. "Chesty" Puller, USMC
Re:Redundancy (Score:2, Funny)
"I am the very model of good "high availability.
My peers and I retain a certain level of redundancy."
Damnit, I'm meant to be at work, not filking...
Re:Here's how to defeat Zeus... (Score:2, Funny)
All they had back then was lambskin.
So? Banging sheep is a perfectly good method of birth control.
Hah! captcha = untapped
Re:Botnets (Score:4, Funny)
Reboot the machine. If the startup screen says Windows, just go ahead and assume it's infested.