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.'"
Re:Well I'm sold. (Score:4, Informative)
Re:Botnets (Score:5, Informative)
MalwareBytes is shockingly good at malware removal. Theres almost nothing else like it.
Also, dump Symantec and McAfee crapware for Microsoft Security Essentials or something like NOD32.
Symantec and McAfee no longer keep up with viruses. Every day I'm doing janitor on systems with Symantec Endpoint. I transfer the viruses from the infected machines to my own to submit them to Microsoft...but then Security Essentials picks them up. Symantec has no clue.
Re:Kinda, yeah (Score:4, Informative)
I've had a website hosted on Hurricane Electric since 1997. Email too. They've been really reliable.
Yeah, too bad they no longer are...
So it'd suck for them to go down because of some vigilante reaction to a botnet.
Indeed, that'll suck. I guess it's time now to shop around for a more trustworthy hosting provider?
Re:Botnets (Score:1, Informative)
Don't know about you, but I set Automatic Updates to notify only on every computer I own. The hassle of downloading updates manually outweighs the downside of terrible latency.