Like the evil force in “Lord of The Rings” famous story, spam which was once defeated now has gathered its strength and is on the rise again!

Two weeks ago when the command center of spam called McColo, a Web-hosting company that ran sites for several chief spammers, was forced to shut down the world had enjoyed a short moment of victorious air seeing spam sent over the Internet down to 80%. There were lucky days when many people on Earth did not see Viagra and cheap Rolex promotion messages in their mailboxes – such unbelievable peaceful period.

But peace seems always short and the botnets, which had been lost the commander to tell them which spam to send, programmatically reconnected to hackers’ computers to receive new orders. Spam is back, unfortunately gaining nearly 100% strength as it was.

Two major units called Asprox and Rustock have already come alive and the worst, Srizbi which is responsible for half of all spam, is on the way back to full power, informed from frontier spot MessageLabs, an email-security company.

The world now has to prepare for another battle, expected much more difficult one because, according to FireEye, the new command-and-control servers are in Estonia and the domain names are being bought from a registrar in Russia, too far from hands of US legal knights.

“This was never the end of spam, it was a minor victory. Things will go back to the way they were” says Matt Sergeant, senior anti-spam technologist at MessageLabs. “Two weeks is longer than anyone expected it to last,” he adds.

Anyway, we can tell our children that once upon a time, sky was so bright, spam was defeated badly and almost disappeared on the net…