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Story: Lycos launches anti-spam zombie army
Posted by: Anonymous (Thursday 2 December 2004, 2:07 AM)
This screen saver is a brilliant attempt to address this by visiting the sites the spam emails request them to, in such numbers that it increases their bandwidth and running costs. Well they did advertise for people to visit them!!! I dispise spam, it costs the world economy billions, disrupts global communications, delivers pornography to minors, and spreads viruses.
Installed the screen saver three days ago and it worked fantastically with global statistisics and a world map showing where geographically the individual site requests were directed.
After the first day the link to the main server failed to connect. I went to the web site and it appeared to have a hacked message. It seems the spammers may have taken revenge on the site. I guess this is temporary and will soon be fixed.
'Zombie Army' appears an appropriate term as there seems to be a big battles occuring on the net behind the scenes involving terabytes of data and increasing army of antispammers using this screen saver (60,000 worldwilde and growing fast). I hope the anti-spammers triumph and the spammers find something more productive to do with thier time and energy.
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Story: Lycos launches anti-spam zombie army
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Altough I am completely against spam/UCE, I am als... Troy A. Billington -
how can people defend the spammer criminals? Lycos... christ
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We're not defending the spammers, we're just... NJ -
This screen saver is a brilliant attempt to addres... Anonymous -
Any way to stop the infection of spam is ok. Most... James L Snow Jr
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And what happens when the addresses to be att... David B. Wildgoose
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Something, anything, needs to be done t... Anonymous -
Personally I feel the best way to target spam... mike rossiter
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I fully endorse this method - well done Lycos; pol... Derek
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Spammers WANT hits. Let's GIVE them hits. Anonymous
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Do unto others as they do unto you:
This S/W is... Tim Reasoner
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Hmmm users of the screensaver might just be playin... Anonymous
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it seems that all this spam loaded with virus's is... rod bareiss
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Visit www.spamitback.com. Much better than the scr... TheGuy
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My idea: Join Lycos Mail. I've been a user since... DECREASE the spam from KNOWN spammers
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Final Decision: You cannot fight wrong with a wron... DecisionMaker
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