dgmodel Posted December 2 Report Share Posted December 2 this nerdy dude at work was all excited about this new screensaver from lycos that goes after spammers... lol anyone heard about this or have any info on it... he was literally excited about this thing... i was like "yo its too early to talk about tekmology..." but now im kinda curious what its all about... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phatman Posted December 2 Report Share Posted December 2 ...lmao.....i just pictured you saying that in a joking voice.....lmao......and no, never heard of it but sounds smurftastic...... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
georgym Posted December 2 Report Share Posted December 2 ...lmao.....i just pictured you saying that in a joking voice.....lmao......and no, never heard of it but sounds smurftastic......any1 do a search for this thing? that would be smurfy if ya did Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
highmay Posted December 2 Report Share Posted December 2 why dont you just ask him?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HAZE Posted December 2 Report Share Posted December 2 Lycos Europe has started to distribute a special screensaver in a controversial bid to battle spam. The program - titled Make Love Not Spam, and available for Windows and the Mac OS - sends a request to view a spam source site. When a large number of screensavers send their requests at the same time the spam web page becomes overloaded and slow.The servers targeted by the screensaver have been manually selected from various sources, including Spamcop, and verified to be spam advertising sites, Lycos claims. Several tests are performed to make sure that no server stops working. Flooding a server with requests so that the server is unable to respond to the volume of requests made - a process known as a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack - is considered to be illegal.Lycos believes the program will eventually hurt spammers. 'Spamvirtised' sites typically don't sell advertising, so they have to pay for bandwidth. Therefore more requests means higher bills, Lycos argues.A spokesman for Lycos in Germany told The Register he believed that the tool could generate 3.4MB in traffic on a daily basis. When 10m screensavers are downloaded and used, the numbers quickly add up, to 33TB of 'useless' IP traffic. Seems Lycos may hurt not just spammers. ®http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/11/26/lycos_europe_spam_blitz/The screensaver is available HERE but how ironic, the page won't load. Looks like the spammers are already fighting back.This article is correct, all it's doing is clogging up the internet by using a shitload of bandwidth. Tell nerdboy Darrell G. says eat a fat one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kahn Posted December 3 Report Share Posted December 3 besides the ddos attack, it also keeps their bandwith utilization maxed out so their isp bill is enormous....... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dgmodel Posted December 3 Author Report Share Posted December 3 why dont you just ask him??because i worked almost 24.hrs. straight igot the rest of the afternoon off.. .and the nerd wasnt near me... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dgmodel Posted December 3 Author Report Share Posted December 3 why dont you just ask him??because i worked almost 24.hrs. straight igot the rest of the afternoon off.. .and the nerd wasnt near me... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dgmodel Posted December 3 Author Report Share Posted December 3 why dont you just ask him??because i worked almost 24.hrs. straight igot the rest of the afternoon off.. .and the nerd wasnt near me... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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