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Lycos Pulls Vigilante Anti-spam Campaign

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the hardly-knew-ye dept.

davidwr writes "Eweek reports that Lycos is scrapping it's anti-spam campaign: 'On Friday, Lycos Europe gave up the ghost, posting a 'Stay Tuned' note on the MakeLoveNotSpam.com Web site it was using to distribute the screensaver. The Lycos Europe home page, which heavily promoted the screensaver all week, was also scrubbed clean of any references to the screensaver.' See previous Slashdot coverage from Nov. 26, Dec. 1, and Dec. 2."

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  1. I'm guessing by chachob · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Lycos couldn't handle all the bandwidth required since no one visits their site anymore... ;)

  2. Re:Good, it was stupid by phaze3000 · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    Effectively you are proposing to DDOS spamming machines. And if those servers have been subverted and are running as zombies?

    Then the zombie PC will be disabled.

    And if the DDOS takes down a bunch of legitimate servers upstream of the zombie?

    Then networks will be greatly encouraged to deal with their zombie clients.

    And if the DDOS financially damages a company who had a server subverted through no fault of their own?

    See above

    It's not like the spammers wouldn't instantly switch to a different server anyway...
    Again, see above - if networks dealt with zombie PCs quickly then the 419ers wouldn't be have other systems to move to.

    I'm a sysadmin for a number of decent sized networks. I put a lot of effort into automated detection and isolation of trojaned machines (thanks in part to the excellent signatures at Bleeding Snort). Unfortunately, there isn't the will or the funding for this sort of activity at many companies. This DDoS tool would certainly provide the impetus.

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  3. Re:Good, it was stupid by eyeye · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Effectively you are proposing to DDOS spamming machines. And if those servers have been subverted and are running as zombies?


    All the better!


    And if the DDOS takes down a bunch of legitimate servers upstream of the zombie?


    proxy servers? er.. what are you talking about here. zombie web servers? Oh I get it you are just clueless.
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  4. Re:inevitable by syylk · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    honest citizens have no defense against dishonest citizens

    See... We invented something, some time ago. Maybe you heard of it.

    It's called "law". We also invented law enforcing armed groups. Probably you will have it mentioned in your country, some time or another.

    Until then, I understand your need for daily gunfights. Have g^Hfun.