Lycos Europe yesterday announced that it has created a downloadable screensaver aimed at putting spammers out of business. Available for both Mac and Windows, “Make Love, Not Spam” works by flooding a spammer’s Web site with requests for data. The theory is that a very large number of requests sent at the same time will slow response time and result in increased bandwidth costs for spammers.
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Lycos Europe Aims To Thwart Spammers with DDoS Attacks
Posted by: Tina Harlan November 30, 2004 12:28 PMLycos Europe yesterday announced that it has created a downloadable screensaver aimed at putting spammers out of business. Available for both Mac and Windows, “Make Love, Not Spam” works by flooding a spammer’s Web site with requests for data. The theory is that a very large number of requests sent at the same time will slow response time and result in increased bandwidth costs for spammers.