Re: [Full-Disclosure] Lycos Europe organizing a DDoS attack against spammers

2004-12-01 Thread Kevin
On Tue, 30 Nov 2004 13:38:31 +0100 (CET), Feher Tamas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Lycos Europe organizing a DDoS attack against spammers Lycos Europe has started organizing a distributed denial-of-service attack against web sites run by spammers. Lycos, via its makelovenotspam.com website,

Re: [Full-Disclosure] Lycos Europe organizing a DDoS attack against spammers

2004-12-01 Thread Andrew Smith
A get to http://makelovenotspam.com/intl/static/ is what the screen saver does initially. I can not see this lasting long; 1) Whatever they say, they're breaking the law 2) They're DDoSing spammers, the people with millions of bots / gigabits of bandwidth under their control.. we can see now that

[Full-Disclosure] Lycos Europe organizing a DDoS attack against spammers

2004-11-30 Thread Feher Tamas
Lycos Europe organizing a DDoS attack against spammers Lycos Europe has started organizing a distributed denial-of-service attack against web sites run by spammers. Lycos, via its makelovenotspam.com website, is offering a free screensaver for download. The screensavers make constant http

Re: [Full-Disclosure] Lycos Europe organizing a DDoS attack against spammers

2004-11-30 Thread dk
Feher Tamas wrote: Lycos Europe organizing a DDoS attack against spammers OT but: This hit slashdot 4 days ago, and it would seem many noticed that it is not really a DDoS as they claim to throttle the B/W. Anyway -- the expected discussion ensued This was the best to cover the point at

Re: [Full-Disclosure] Lycos Europe organizing a DDoS attack against spammers

2004-11-30 Thread dk
Andrew Smith wrote: This seems to have annoyed quite a few people, makelovenotspam.com is randomly responding to GETs. How long untill someone gets a domain in their list and points it at the lycos servers? Yes, the site in question seems to have drawn more than a few eyes to it. ;/ It's been up