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Zeus Botnet Down But Not Out
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.'"
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How much are they charging per month for use of a command-and-control server? Can I host my e-commerce site on Zeus?
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?)
Car analogies
I don't know how to quit you.
Aparently if your father had encased something else in rubber, we wouldn't have to listen to your drivel...
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This is actually informative. Botnets are the very model of enterprise redundant high-availability. The technology is remarkable in its resilience. You could wipe out Europe and Asia with dual asteroids, and the thing would keep going.
If you want to keep your enterprise up no matter what happens then you need to be prepared for a headshot. They are, and it's not enough to bring them down. How prepared are you?
Help stamp out iliturcy.
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.
Nothing special to it. It's just like a standard virus infection. Take the Blaster worm, for example. You can normally just look at router lights and see if someone's infected (well, unless there's a person constantly streaming music.) The point is that these zombies are up all day getting and receiving data, like a webhost. The data is either addresses to be newly infected, or new command data containing the payloads with the actual spam to be sent out.
If you turn off all the P2P apps, let the PC boot up to a desktop and the network light for that PC immediately goes non-stop for more than 15 minutes, you're infected. No buts.
Firewalls work both ways, and you can always switch WAN and LAN cables :)
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?
They are ingrained and famous to PHBs.
Plus, they have lists of impressive features.
They still suck though.
Why do I have the Major General's song in my head now?
"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...
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All they had back then was lambskin.
So? Banging sheep is a perfectly good method of birth control.
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Reboot the machine. If the startup screen says Windows, just go ahead and assume it's infested.
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