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      Anonymous
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      Net users are getting the chance to fight back against spam websites

      Internet portal Lycos has made a screensaver that endlessly requests data from sites that sell the goods and services mentioned in spam e-mail.

      Lycos hopes will it make the monthly bandwidth bills of spammers soar by keeping their servers running flat out. [/quote:7696002f55]

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      Anonymous
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      Anonymous
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      u made a good point there, because:

      A plan to bump up the bandwidth bills of spammers seems to be getting out of control…………Finnish anti-virus firm F-Secure advised against using the screensaver in case of legal problems.

      Currently laws in many countries do not explicitly outlaw DDoS attacks but many nations are re-drafting computer use laws to make them specific offences. …..[/quote:e7bcd14965]

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