Skewer spam with SpamSkewer
p2pnet.net News:- Spammers have new cause to fear. Our mate William Keeler has been coding like a fiend on his latest release, SpammerSkewer, a cooperative, p2p-based spam killer.
If ‘Keeley’ rings a bell, that’s because he also created SpamFryer and Spammer Slammer.
We’d had a public service ad for his most recent innovation, Spammer Slapper, at the bottom left column for quite some time.
Now here’s Keeley again with the alpha version of SpammerSkewer.
“Spammers inundate inboxes with unwanted scams and advertisements, but they can only continue doing so as long as it’s profitable,” reasons Keeley.
Take that away and there’s not much reason for spammers to spam.
And that means SpammerSkewer.
Here’s how it works:
1. Users download SpammerSkewer for free and copy the spam they receive to SpammerSkewer’s spam folder, or they can use the complaint program that’s included.
2. The program downloads content from a spammer’s web site in proportion to the amount of spam received, costing the spammer for bandwith usage.
3. Computers running the program communicate through a peer-to-peer network, allowing other computers on the network to continue to rack up spammers’ bandwith charges and bottleneck the web site’s processing power.
4. Once a few thousand users have SpammerSkewer, the traffic to the spammer’s site is unbearable. Bandwith costs become too great for the spammer to continue business, and he or she must close up shop.
5. Spam is greatly reduced, and checking e-mail is no longer a frustrating, time-consuming task.
Download SpammerSkewer now, and start making spammers pay!
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January 25th, 2007 at 7:52 pm
Isn’t this just a program to cause DDoS attacks against spam companies? Isn’t that still illegal, even if the company is illicit in the first place? What about the danger that you accidentally initiate this attack against a non-spammer because the program thinks that the e-mail is spam?
January 25th, 2007 at 8:33 pm
It is not a DDOS. The program only goes after site for which it has instructions to complain to. When the author receives spam that advertises a site, the author actually visits the site to see if it meet the criteria for inclusion on the list of spamvertised sites.
The email addresses the author uses to collect the spam has never been given to the public. They only exist to collect spam. The program only complains once for each URL that is contained within spam and then, only if the URL is in the Instruction file.
There is very little danger in an innocent site receiving complaints.
January 26th, 2007 at 12:01 pm
Make this known here:
http://digg.com/software/SpamSkewer_P2P_distributed_Anti_Spam