A way to fight back [Archive]

FUS1ON

11-29-2004, 09:37 PM

Internet portal Lycos has made a screensaver that endlessly requests data from sites that sell the goods and services mentioned in spam e-mail.

Lycos hopes it will make the monthly bandwidth bills of spammers soar by keeping their servers running flat out.

The net firm estimates that if enough people sign up and download the tool, spammers could end up paying to send out terabytes of data.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4051553.stm

Asian Invasian

11-29-2004, 10:34 PM

nice find :tup: its so smart why didnt i think of that :confused: :D

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11-30-2004, 12:43 AM

:thumbs: Revenge! It's sweeter than a pumpkin buscuit! :D

EdoG

11-30-2004, 01:45 AM

:thumbs: Revenge! It's sweeter than a pumpkin buscuit! :D

Always. Example: Raiders 25 - Broncos 24 :rofl: :thumbs:

SoulReaver

11-30-2004, 11:54 PM

Great idea! But wouldn't your computer get a lot of spyware from visiting all those spam sites?

Death Engineer

12-01-2004, 12:24 AM

I don't think it actually visits those websites. Just requests data over and over and over thus running up their bandwidth. The liklihood of these companies actually losing any cash worthy of mentioning is very low though. Bandwidth is cheap these days.