Lycos is offering a free screensaver that will allow individuals to vent their anger on spammers. The Screensaver is essentially a Denial of Service attack tool that targets websites promoted by the spam messages. If nothing else, the websites (servers) promoted by spam will get lot of worthless hits that cost money for bandwidth and keep their servers loaded doing useless work, but of no value.

Then again, what happens if Lycos decides to take on someone else for a change. A hole is a hole and a DOS is a DOS.

Screensaver tackles spam websites

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