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Artists Against 419 Releases Mugu Marauder

Posted by timothy on from the satisfying-anwers dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Similar in scope to the (now defunct) screensaver created by Lycos that targeted spam sites, the newly-released Mugu Marauder is intended to take fraudulent bank sites off the air by sponging up their bandwidth. Mugu Marauder can be downloaded at www.aa419.org/mm/ It's currently only available for Windows, though a Linux port is allegedly in the works."

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  1. FP by michaelhood · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Beware of getting slammed by your ISP with a "friendly" letter, after consuming tons of bandwidth using something like this.

  2. Yay (*sigh*) by n0dalus · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Once these sites get hit they redirect the dns towards legitamate services and change addresses.
    So this will probably just end up DDoS'ing the real banks instead of the fake ones, these fake banks move around a lot and create extra damage in their wake as a result of something like this.
    Fighting fire with fire just doesn't work like it should.

  3. Gee, thats great by gowen · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Vigilante justive via DDOS. Well, that won't set a horrible precedent for people knobbling the web site's of those they don't like. Who's next? Radical pro-life groups DDOS'ing websites with abortion information?

    (Yes, I know this has a slippery-slope element to it, but there are plenty of activist groups out there willing to be vigilantes, because they believe their actions to be either unambiguously moral, or divinely inspired.)

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  4. Please somebody DDoS them. by Kickasso · · Score: 5, Insightful

    aa419.org, that is. They apparently think it's legal and acceptable, so they won't complain.