That didn’t last long: Lycos withdraws its spammer-DDOSing screensaver
Only a few days after releasing its “good idea” of DDOSing spammer websites by geting lots of people to run a screensaver, Lycos has abandoned the idea.
However Lycos isn’t apologetic. (I don’t think there was anything to apologise about. Spammers effectively DDOS email and blogs. Their pinch point is their websites. So let’s use our spare CPU cycles on them too.) It says that when Netcraft was looking at the spammer sites claiming to be down, they weren’t being targeted by its program.
You know, I wouldn’t put it past the spammers to make it look as though this was going on…
- These posts might be related (the database thinks..):
- Lycos screensaver tackles spam websites.. if you can find it (1 December 2004; score: 160.39%)
- This is just *madness*: more than a thousand attempted comment spams a day (7 December 2004; score: 55.97%)
- We apologise for the lack of a front page earlier... (28 October 2004; score: 43.22%)
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