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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. Re:tsarkon reports DEATH TO ALL JEWS!! Katz must d by BlkSprk · · Score: 0, Redundant

    WTF is this crap, someone mod it off, erase this hate monger for god sake

  2. Technically... by http101 · · Score: 1, Redundant

    ...this is known as a DDoS or a "Distributed Denial of Service" attack. Most ISPs will cancel your account and blacklist you for things like this. Use at your own risk!

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    -- Game Developers: Stop porting badly-textured games from crappy console systems!