Posted by anthonyberet on 10/23/05 01:06

Negative wrote:
> anthonyberet <nospam@me.invalid>:
>
>>This is quite good, if you can spare some bandwidth
>>(DDOS on winmx > scamsites)
>>http://www.winmxfreefix.com/ladvampire.php
>
>
> SOME bandwidth? I tried it for a couple of minutes, and
> within ten seconds it was downloading at 650 kilobytes/sec,
> which is all my bandwidth. It also ramped my CPU utilization
> to 100%. That's pyrrhic, and not even victory, since the site
> can likely serve data as fast as hundreds of lads could vampire it.

True, true, it could take 1000's to drain all those servers, although 3
of them were 'struggling' according to that site.
I don't think it does any harm though. - I never did understand the
nettiquette about not fighting fire with fire - I have no qualms at all
about mail-bombing spammers for instance, when I am certain of the
address to bomb.

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