Make Lycos' "Make Love not Spam" run in background


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Hi folks, my first post here is a guide.

Lycos' "Make Love not Spam" Flash screensaver rapidly sends HTTP requests to sites of well-known spammers, overloading their servers when many people using the screensaver are online.

Download here

Make Love not Spam

Now, sadly it's just a screensaver that pops up when you are away from the rig from time to time, but I would rather like it to run continuously to fight spammers. That's an easy task to do.

Using Windows Explorer, browse to Documents and Setting\(Username)\Start Menu\Programs\Startup.

Right click and choose to create a new link.

Browse to C:\Windows\Lycos - make LOVE not SPAM.exe.

Finish creating the link, right-click it and choose "Properties". Select "Run minimized".

Make Love not Spam will now run on every Winodws boot, minimized to the taskbar. You might notice that when clicking the taskbar button for the first time, MLNS will pop up in a frameless windows that can't be moved; press ESC to send it back to the taskbar and click it again. Now it shows up in a normal Flash Player window that can be resized etc.

Hi folks, my first post here is a guide.

Lycos' "Make Love not Spam" Flash screensaver rapidly sends HTTP requests to sites of well-known spammers, overloading their servers when many people using the screensaver are online.

Download here

Make Love not Spam

Now, sadly it's just a screensaver that pops up when you are away from the rig from time to time, but I would rather like it to run continuously to fight spammers. That's an easy task to do.

Using Windows Explorer, browse to Documents and Setting\(Username)\Start Menu\Programs\Startup.

Right click and choose to create a new link.

Browse to C:\Windows\Lycos - make LOVE not SPAM.exe.

Finish creating the link, right-click it and choose "Properties". Select "Run minimized".

Make Love not Spam will now run on every Winodws boot, minimized to the taskbar. You might notice that when clicking the taskbar button for the first time, MLNS will pop up in a frameless windows that can't be moved; press ESC to send it back to the taskbar and click it again. Now it shows up in a normal Flash Player window that can be resized etc.

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Although this may seem like a great idea at first,

it may be construed as a DDOS by those sites that

are targeted and while they may be spammers

this tool sounds like the tool of internet bad-guys

or script kiddies.

It might be prudent to get the advice of your ISP

regarding the legality of this program and whether

the user can be prosecuted or terminated if a complaint

arises from the "SPAM" targets.

well it is a screen saver... and ment to be a screen saver. and a screen saver it will be ;)

nice guide btw... but im not about to have my connection limited because im sending packets to web sites lol

well it is a screen saver... and ment to be a screen saver.  and a screen saver it will be ;)

nice guide btw... but im not about to have my connection limited because im sending packets to web sites lol

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The amount of data sent is limited to 3.4 MB per day and client, and certain algorothms ensure that the HTTP packet bombing is not perceived as a DDoS attack by the target servers.

It's the amount of screensaver users that counts. Even with a lousy 128 k of upload and eMule running MLNS does not affect my surfing ... however it seems that the 77000 users so far have made some servers in Asia lose half of their bandwidth :p

so your suggestion is what?

they operate where, currently they cannot be prosecuted, thats why they do it.

This is an opportunity to return the favour of having 10`s of junk email in your inbox everyday.

I dont want spam, if they stop sending them I`ll uninstall this program.

As it is, it is a SMALL way I can get some satisfaction and cause them inconvenience, as they have done to me.

Yes, we seem to have caused them a LOT of inconvenience. As you might know, the MLNS website was attacked and possibly broken into yesterday as a reaction to the screensaver's release. Now it has gotten even stranger: When I came home from work, MLNS couldn't connect again to Lycos' "proxy", and now it is just darkened and tells me to stay tuned. :cry:

When I have time and if MLNS survives the next week or so, I will write a little Visual Basic frontend for hidden or iconized background execution.

I see it like this. Imagine a company that EVERY DAY uses an abnoxiously loud speaker system that you can hear through your entire city (hyptetically large city)... trying to scam/sell/solicit thier wares. They make money due to the fact people that are suckered to thier abnoxious advertisement typically purchase something (with high profit margins). However like this screensaver, what if you go thousands of your friends to just walk in the store, browse around and do the typical shoper thing (maybe leave one item in the wrong place) then leave. They loose money fast, thats what happens here. (No the best analogy but I think it fits well). Its also like this, you have a thousand spammers spending 40 dollars a day to spam. What if you had 100,000 angry users, that spend a dollar a day to actively stop them. We can win, but this passive stuff or "OH NOES lets not walk the grey erea" will never stop. Kinda like america and troops dying. No disrespect, matter of fact, upmost respect for those honerable soldiers. If we cant take small costs to effectively stop the larger picture, no one but the abusers win.

Note: the american example wasnt mean to start some political flamefest, please dont turn it in to such.

Hehe, brilliant idea! That'll teach the suckerz one good lesson. Someone said 'you don't stop war with war'. On the contrary, WARS HAVE ALWAYS BEEN ENDED WITH MAJOR BATTLES'. Look back in history. That's how it's been done. An eye for an eye, tooth for a tooth! Hehe, I wonder how the fake-Rolex vendor is doing today, hahahaha, what, zilch dollars? Nooooo, hahahahaha :laugh: Thanks Lycos, you really made my day. ;)

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Nice first post, a spam post :omg:

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With all due respect, you don't even know what this thread is about :p :woot:

This thread is about using that screensaver all the time, using a quick little hack, he's not promoting the screen saver like those other links you gave. I'm tempted to say owned, or that you were foolish, but I shall hold my breath :rolleyes:

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