[Mimedefang] Lycos Screensaver that attacks Spammers

[Sean Ware]

Kevin A. McGrail (kmcgrail at pccc.com) @ 2004.12.01 10:29:57 -0500:
> Below is an interesting article from The Washington Post where it details a 
> new screensaver from Lycos.  The screensaver visits websites while your 
> computer is idle that are referenced in SPAM and make it to a bad spammers 
> list.  This is done in an attempt to limit the website ability to server 
> traffic efficiently by causing extra traffic.

And today's followup news article where said service goes down in a
ball of flames:

    http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/security/0,2000061744,39168558,00.htm


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