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Lycos Europe organizing a DDoS attack against spammers
From: Feher Tamas <etomcat () freemail hu>
Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2004 13:38:31 +0100 (CET)
Lycos Europe organizing a DDoS attack against spammers Lycos Europe has started organizing a distributed denial-of-service attack against web sites run by spammers. Lycos, via its makelovenotspam.com website, is offering a free screensaver for download. The screensavers make constant http requests to spam websites. The idea is to slow down spam servers by overloading them - ie. by launching a DDoS. Which is illegal in many, many countries. Although this seems like a good idea, finnish anti-virus copany F-Secure comments they cannot recommend using such screen saver because of possible legal problems. BTW, the above mentioned anti-spam DDoS site itself is being DDoSed right now. Maybe it's intentional, maybe just too much public attention. Sincerely: Tamas Feher. _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.netsys.com/full-disclosure-charter.html
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