time to adopt the spyware purveyors’ methods?

On the topic of Lycos’s misguided attempt to attack spammers with a DoS attack:

[IP] F more on [Technical] Lycos gets into the denial-of-service attac:

From: Mary Shaw

Date: November 29, 2004 11:00:53 AM EST

To: dave at farber.net

Subject: Re: [IP] [Technical] Lycos gets into the denial-of-service attack business

Reply-To: Mary Shaw

Aren’t the people who casually download screen savers roughly the same

people who casually download other stuff that turns their computers

into zombies?

If Lycos wants to distribute a screen saver that fights spam, why

don’t they concentrate on a screensaver that de-zombifies the

computers to which it is downloaded? Depriving spammers of the

bandwidth they’re getting from zombies should have the same effect on

spam with reducton instead of increase in useless IP traffic.

While they’re at it, they could add virus protection.

Charity isn’t the only thing that begins at home.