Donna's SecurityFlash

Kick Ass !!!

Awesome. That's probably a better and more fair solution than any government could devise.

Lycos download site seems to be down or attacked. I get a "page not found" message and http://makelovenotspam.com/ display the following message: "Yes, attacking spammers is wrong, you know this, you shouldn't be doing it. Your ip address and request have been logged and will be reported to your ISP for further action."

Ok. It seems the spammers are using another incorrect proceadure. Not satisfied with delivering unwamted messages, they have now apparently hacked into a site that is not theirs. It shows what these people are really like. They have introduced this "threat message" (see Chris's post).

OK big deal, go on and report me to who ever you like. Want my name and address too. Well seeing that you have taken the trouble to log the ISP's of all those who do not want to receive your rubbish, I trust you will use it to remove my computer from your lists.

Well done Lycos. Looks like the bastards are running scared evidence their attempt to block the makelovenotspam site. Too late boys I've put it on every PC at my office - all 119 of them.

You can still download the screensaver.

FYI, I tried to download the screensaver and as is so often the case wasn't able to easily do so. Being a network tech I did what I usually do, that is I took Internet Explorer out of the equation by running my request through a proxy (proxomitron) which shows you exactly what is being requested in real time. Once the URL was revealed it was a simple task to request it again using another download utility (x-fileget). Using x-fileget (or any other download utility) there's a good chance that the download will be rapidly completed as it was for me. In any case the URL for downloading the screensaver is:

http://download.makelovenotspam.com/screensavers/MLNS_screensaver_en.exe

I don't know if the URL above is going to be broken into two lines or not (probably not) but if it is you'll need to copy and paste it into notepad and remove the carriage return so that the entire URL is on the same line before attempting to download it. Otherwise trying to paste it into whatever you're trying to download it with the URL will be cut off at the carriage return.

Note to the website admin: Your site is beautiful in my opinion. It's very nicely done but in some ways this is hindering people's ability to download your screensaver. Making the entire download page one big flash animation makes it nearly impossible to get the download URL for the majority of the planet who are not network engineers. This seems to me counter productive since the only thing that is making it difficult to download is the way your site is set up. I don't know why but I couldn't download it using Internet Explorer. Once I tried to download it with another program the download proceeded very quickly. It seems that someone has messed with your code making the download fail for whatever reason. if you simply posted the URL somewhere this would most likely not be the case which is why I included it above. I suggest to you that sometimes simplicity can be better than your present efforts. Make the download page in regular html so that people can right-click on the download link and obtain the download URL for your screensaver. Lots of people know how to do this and it'll make it a lot easier to accomplish your goal of putting these spamming fools out of commission. Also, if you'd really like to make the spread of your screensaver impossible to stop you've got to post it on as many mirror sites as possible. You could also encourage people to send it to their friends via email, etc. If you would like I can post it in some publically accessible location. I'll wait to hear back from you before I do so, of course. Let me know. I can be reached at spamturbation on the y a h o o . c om servers. You'll want to take the spaces out of course.

Ciao for now,
PJ

Note:

This is additional comments to my post above.

Clicking on the link in my previous post using Internet Explorer will most likely not succeed (at least it hasn't for me). The progress window opens and the progress bar progresses to about 5% completed but stops there forever. I tried downloading it using Opera (another web browser) and it didn't seem to be working until all of a sudden the download was completed. Trying to download it using Mozilla's Firefox never got off the ground. A window was opened to show the download progress but it never even started. I don't know why this is happening but I can tell you that using x-fileget the download completed in about 10 seconds.

Xfileget can be downloaded by clicking on the link below:

http://www.filelibrary.com:8080/cgi-bin/freedownload/Windows/j/112/xfileget.zip

Note: I found the link above by going to the search engine at

http://www.ooodoggy.com/

and searching for:

xfileget.zip

If you have any trouble with the link above you can always do the same thing. There were other search results there that might work for you.

Once you have x-fileget, install then run it. Then come back to this page and right click on the link in my previous posting, choose Copy Link Location. You can then go back to the x-fileget window and click on the button with the + in it. That'll paste the link into x-fileget and the download should complete.

The obvious question one asks next is, "so where did the file download to?" Just FYI, unless you changed the settings it's in the same location you installed x-fileget to. If you don't know where this is you can find out by clicking on the settings button. It's the one next to the button with the "?" on it. If you hold your mouse over it you'll see "Settings" come up after a second or two. Click on that button and you'll see the download location at the top of the window.

Browse to that folder using Windows explorer. The file you're looking for is an executable file so to install the screensaver all you have to do is double click on the file named MLNS_screensaver_en.exe.

Oh and btw, it's been a number of hours since I first tried to download this screensaver. I tried to download it again using Internet Explorer and it succeeded this time with no problems. Whatever was the problem before appears to be time sensitive so if you have problems you can always try again later. It's 7pm locally (Pacific Time) and I expect that most people in Europe are sleeping now so the server load has lightened (download.makelovenotspam.com is registered to a company in Sweden). European traffic no doubt has some effect upon whether a download from a european server is successful so try downloading when it's the middle of the night in Europe if you have problems.

Good Luck One and All.

PJ

The web page nor x-fileget works.

their web page is offline and so cannot be downloaded!

According to netcraft the site has been blocked by some ISP's backbones.....

http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2004/12/02/lycos_screensaver_site_blocked_by_internet_backbones.html

Interesting...

What a cool way to get revenge on those insidious spammer jerks who clog up our mailboxes and rip-off hardworking people.

If this dang thing ever gets to be downloaded again, my company will have it on every computer we own. Pretty sweet i can finaly pay them back in my thousands of spam mails a week.

Sounds yummy!

Yeah! once Lycos is back online I swear I'll make sure all the computers I touch get this screensaver and so all the people I know!
REVENGE!!!

How about someome learns unix and uses their brain to script spam payback integrated into sendmail rules ? What the hell is a pc going to do besides being a virus laden box of stupidity for stupid users ?

Also found this link on Emule a p2p programe
If you have Emule then just copy this link below :-)

ed2k://|file|MLNS_screensaver_en.exe|1834847|D30F1CCA6775804A2CC0292737FB0BD5|/

bust em dude..... good job lycos

For download of the Lycos screensaver:

Use www.filemirrors.com

and search for the file:

MLNS_screensaver_en.exe


The MakeLoveNotSpam site has still the
screensaver for download, although moved from the original place.