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Net users are getting the chance to fight back against spam websites
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 will it make the monthly bandwidth bills of spammers soar by keeping their servers running flat out.
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http://makelovenotspam.com/intl/
That's funny indeed.
But, it's even funnier considering the company who's doing it.
Lycos has been known to spam and have spyware in their tools themselves. ;)
thats why i have not Downloaded the screen saver yet, i like the idea, but i waiting to if there are any "side effects" from the sreen saver
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A plan to bump up the bandwidth bills of spammers seems to be getting out of control............Finnish anti-virus firm F-Secure advised against using the screensaver in case of legal problems.
Currently laws in many countries do not explicitly outlaw DDoS attacks but many nations are re-drafting computer use laws to make them specific offences. .....