You remember DDOS (Distributed Denial of Service) attacks? Lycos, Inc's new screensaver works along the same principles, and acts against websites which send spam. Basically, while it is running, it sends repeated requests for data to various spam servers. There are two key differences: You must install the program willingly, and the screensaver incorporates technology to prevent total denial of service. Rather, they merely want to "make it much higher cost for spammers by putting a load on their servers." This has already had demonstrable effect, in the best case reducing response times by 85%.
We approve. Go forth and download it from www.makelovenotspam.com (just click whatever country)
