At www.makelovenotspam.com you can download a screensaver that starts hitting known spam-websites once activated. The idea is that it will slow down the site for their "regular" customers and because you create traffic it will cost them money for bandwidth. The idea is from Lycos....I like it.
31000 users yesterday, 38000 today. Make them pay too!
it is only considered a DDOS attack if the target servers stop functioning. Lycos claims that they have configured their screensaver to make the targets go very slow and use large amounts of bandwith, which technically isn't a DDOS attack. If you do use it, I wouldn't worry too much about getting busted. The RIAA has only sued a very small fraction of the millions of people who download pirated music...
Paul
Posted: Mon Nov 29, 2004 | 03:43 PM
That would have been my rational answer Bug.
But....how many people know what a DDOS attack is!?
Paul
Posted: Wed Dec 01, 2004 | 03:06 PM
Oh dear, the screensaver website appears to have been hacked by spammers.... http://www.f-secure.com/weblog/archives/deflove3.jpg
To me that only proves that spammers are malicious.
Website is offline right now.
I'll keep you posted.
BugbearSloth
Posted: Wed Dec 01, 2004 | 06:27 PM
Lycos is claiming that the hacker attack and defacement is a hoax perpetuated by some of the spammers they are targeting:
It's not DDOS!!! Ugh....
There's only about 90000 copies of the screensaver around anyway. These are not all "attacking" all off the time and not all at the same site. They are simply connecting like a normal user would do. Therefor the "alleged" spammer will have to pay for the bandwidth used for that connection.
Spammers cost my company hundreds of euros a month in waisted time and waisted bandwidth. A useless EU law is saying it's not allowed to spam. Of course they don't have a clue how to actually prosecute any of them since they're all in Asia or South America.
I know what to do. GET BACK AT THEM!!! Do to them what they do to you. Waist their time and money!!
Myst
Posted: Wed Dec 01, 2004 | 10:34 PM
I am not taking the part of the spammers here, ok guys (now don't go throwing those rotten tomatoes) but here is another point to consider:
if I connect to your website, especially if I do so repeatedly, or for an extended period of time, you are going to have my IP address all over your logs.
I'd guess that their strategy is safety in numbers. The spammers could retaliate if just a few people were doing this to them. But it's much harder to retaliate against hundreds of thousands of people.
Myst
Posted: Wed Dec 01, 2004 | 11:49 PM
Ahh the protection of numbers, I never thought of that.
Surfer
Posted: Fri Dec 03, 2004 | 12:20 AM
"Aunty Spam" can take a long walk off of a short cliff. What the hell is that site doing trying to educate people about spam when you can't tell the content from the placed advertisements on the site? Farking unbelievable.
Surfer
Posted: Fri Dec 03, 2004 | 12:21 AM
I say lets all hack the screen saver to hit Aunty Spam's Farking crappy site instead!
The link on my name above is a spam site. I thot that this added to the list of spam sites to mess with them... This is the site.. http://lasenote.com/ spam away if u want. don't click on my name above unless u want to eat bandwidth of the spammers...
I hate spam... Do people actually click on those links and buy stuff? I've nvr met anyone that has..
