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Story: Lycos launches anti-spam zombie army

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Hmmm users of the screensaver might just be playing right into the spammers hands.

Even a half decent web programmer can program data miners into a web page or site them at certain locations on a server.

By mass hitting these spam sites you may actually be sending your details unwitingly to a spammer who has not yet spammed you.

By using the target sites as mere data pickups the vast lists generated of mined data from these attacks can be sent to another server who can then start to spam on a seperate and unattacked subscriber line.

If the zombie army was 66,000,000 instead of 66,000 then you might get somewhere but 66,000 subscribers relates to about 5,000 users at any one time not using their computers and so attacking the spammers, assuming that there are 100 spammer servers on the list this relates to a total attack of 50 users at any one time one any one spammer server.

Now sorry guys but 50 hits a time is not going to phase a spammers servers.

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