Myst
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Posted: Mon Nov 29, 2004 | 04:20 PM
There is one reason not to do this, it's illegal.
See: http://www.aunty-spam.com/archives/2004/11/26/lycos-offers-windows-screensaver-to-ddos-spammers-dont-do-it |
Paul
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Posted: Mon Nov 29, 2004 | 04:30 PM
Aunty can go to hell. I'm getting back at those bastards until somebody stops me.
I'd say Lycos is a pretty big company with a LOT of lawyers. They know what they're doing. |
BugbearSloth
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Posted: Mon Nov 29, 2004 | 04:38 PM
According to the Register article:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/11/26/lycos_europe_spam_blitz/
it is only considered a DDOS attack if the target servers stop functioning. Lycos claims that they have configured their screensaver to make the targets go very slow and use large amounts of bandwith, which technically isn't a DDOS attack. If you do use it, I wouldn't worry too much about getting busted. The RIAA has only sued a very small fraction of the millions of people who download pirated music... |
Paul
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Posted: Mon Nov 29, 2004 | 04:43 PM
That would have been my rational answer Bug.
But....how many people know what a DDOS attack is!? |
Paul
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Posted: Wed Dec 01, 2004 | 04:06 PM
Oh dear, the screensaver website appears to have been hacked by spammers....
http://www.f-secure.com/weblog/archives/deflove3.jpg
To me that only proves that spammers are malicious.
Website is offline right now.
I'll keep you posted.
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BugbearSloth
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Posted: Wed Dec 01, 2004 | 07:27 PM
Lycos is claiming that the hacker attack and defacement is a hoax perpetuated by some of the spammers they are targeting:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/12/01/lycos_spam_attack/ |
Paul
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Posted: Wed Dec 01, 2004 | 07:52 PM
It's not DDOS!!! Ugh....
There's only about 90000 copies of the screensaver around anyway. These are not all "attacking" all off the time and not all at the same site. They are simply connecting like a normal user would do. Therefor the "alleged" spammer will have to pay for the bandwidth used for that connection.
Spammers cost my company hundreds of euros a month in waisted time and waisted bandwidth. A useless EU law is saying it's not allowed to spam. Of course they don't have a clue how to actually prosecute any of them since they're all in Asia or South America.
I know what to do. GET BACK AT THEM!!! Do to them what they do to you. Waist their time and money!! |
Myst
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Posted: Wed Dec 01, 2004 | 11:34 PM
I am not taking the part of the spammers here, ok guys (now don't go throwing those rotten tomatoes) but here is another point to consider:
if I connect to your website, especially if I do so repeatedly, or for an extended period of time, you are going to have my IP address all over your logs.
That makes me ripe for retaliation.
This comes from Net Patrol:
http://www.aunty-spam.com/archives/2004/12/01/make-love-not-spam-campaign-does-it-put-users-at-risk
Just bringing it up for discussion so put down those darn tomatoes will ya! :p |
The Curator
in San Diego
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Posted: Thu Dec 02, 2004 | 12:23 AM
I'd guess that their strategy is safety in numbers. The spammers could retaliate if just a few people were doing this to them. But it's much harder to retaliate against hundreds of thousands of people. |
Myst
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Posted: Thu Dec 02, 2004 | 12:49 AM
Ahh the protection of numbers, I never thought of that. |
Surfer
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Posted: Fri Dec 03, 2004 | 01:20 AM
"Aunty Spam" can take a long walk off of a short cliff. What the hell is that site doing trying to educate people about spam when you can't tell the content from the placed advertisements on the site? Farking unbelievable. |
Surfer
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Posted: Fri Dec 03, 2004 | 01:21 AM
I say lets all hack the screen saver to hit Aunty Spam's Farking crappy site instead! |
Pepe
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Posted: Thu Jan 26, 2006 | 04:08 PM
Spam sucks |
pepe
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Posted: Thu Jan 26, 2006 | 04:14 PM
sorry,
The link on my name above is a spam site. I thot that this added to the list of spam sites to mess with them... This is the site.. http://lasenote.com/ spam away if u want. don't click on my name above unless u want to eat bandwidth of the spammers...
I hate spam... Do people actually click on those links and buy stuff? I've nvr met anyone that has.. |
mumei101
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Posted: Thu Nov 05, 2009 | 03:51 PM
dont know, thats pretty dodgy. especially if you get caught. just use scambaiting!
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