Massive Botnet Returns From the Dead To Spam On

CWmike writes "Gregg Keizer reports that the big spam-spewing Srizbi botnet, shut down two weeks ago when McColo was shuttered, has been resurrected and is again under the control of criminals, security researchers said today. As of late Tuesday, infected PCs were able to successfully reconnect with new command-and-control servers, which are now based in Estonia, said Fengmin Gong, chief security content officer at FireEye. The comeback confirms what researchers noted last week, that Srizbi had a fallback strategy. So, in the end, that strategy paid off for the criminals who control the botnet."

Comments

Re:Further Proof

[jargon82]

I've been running my windows XP laptop as non-admin for over 2 years. It's not as bad as you say. Two things keep me going. Superior SU, found here: http://www.stefan-kuhr.de/supsu/main.php3 and make me admin, found here: http://blogs.msdn.com/aaron_margosis/archive/2004/07/24/193721.aspx. Between the two, running non-admin is quite comfortable with a bit of practice.

Re:Further Proof

[blhack]

A little windows trickery:

Right click on internet explorer and click "Run As" run it as admin.
type C:\ into the address bar. Navigate to whatever folder the programs you want to run are in and run them. Anything that spawns from here will be running as admin.