1 Dec
2004
1 Dec
'04
5:42 p.m.
Kevin A. McGrail (kmcgrail@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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Sean Ware Midway Amusement Games, LLC
Senior Network Engineer 2727 W. Roscoe Street
Information Technology Department Chicago, IL 60618-5909
sware@midway.com (773) 961-2000