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Spam Sites Crippled by Lycos Screensaver DDoS (Netcraft)

Spam Sites Crippled by Lycos Screensaver DDoS (Netcraft)

Posted Dec 2, 2004 19:14 UTC (Thu) by keithw (guest, #3127)
In reply to: Spam Sites Crippled by Lycos Screensaver DDoS (Netcraft) by dskoll
Parent article: Spam Sites Crippled by Lycos Screensaver DDoS (Netcraft)

And thus avoid paying for their regular bandwidth as well... Lycos' screensaver ends up saving spammers money...


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Spam Sites Crippled by Lycos Screensaver DDoS (Netcraft)

Posted Dec 2, 2004 20:02 UTC (Thu) by ncm (subscriber, #165) [Link]

It would be fun to make some convenient zombie box that was also serving web pages enter fake orders. Lots and lots of fake orders. How long does it take for an unprotected SP1 to get "recruited"? Four minutes, now?

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