Lycos screen saver attacks spammers

[Mr Webname]

http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/internet/12/02/anti.spamvigi.ap/index.html

Interesting "fight-back" concept - what do you think?

 

[MediaHound]

You think its interesting?
It's ridiculous.
That screensaver Lycos gave away caused them some problems.
It was supposed to flood accused spammers with a denial of service attack from all the users of the screensaver. Brilliant idea, right?
The spammer bounced the traffic "right back at cha" to Lycos.
http://news.zdnet.co.uk/internet/security/0,39020375,39175786,00.htm

 

[croupier]

Lycos really are dumb, did they think the spammers would just sit back and take it?

Lyco will be lucky if their site is ever seen again - I know I'd have an army of hackers taking their site down constantly if I was in the spammers shoes.

 

[cogeek]

they are idiot, never make the samrt to a hacker i think! But someday spammers should STOP

 

[stevey]

if there gonna fight back they need to do it propper, take out there server with a nice virus should sort spammers out