Hacking Spyware/Malware/adware -Real warfare

[jcw122]

I'm 90% sure this isnt against forum rules.

OK, so everyone HATES spyware malware adware sites, right? Why doesnt anyone just hack those suckers? Like shut down their freeking servers via hacking? OK, i know that is illegal, but what their doing to us is also illegal right? Just like to know what others think.

-PS- if this thread is against the rules, sorry my bad.

-PSS- please dont turn this into a morals discussion

[David]

Two wrongs do not make a right, as my parents always said.

[JigPu]

As long as this thread stays about the discussion of "why don't we just hack them?", it's within the rules. It's if/when somebody decides to post links to programs that could do this that it steps outside and will get nuked.

What they are doing may be illegal, but the law doesn't make any exemptions to make it legal for YOU to do it back. It's just as eqauly procecutable if somebody hacks into your computer as it is if you hack into that somebody's computer in retaliation. Or, more simply, just read David's post :)

JigPu

[Mr.Guvernment]

I am sure people have "tried" to hack them, but i am sure they also have very good secueiry, also alot of these spyware companies probably run off of multi servers around the world so they can juts up and move and change.

Unfortuantly it is not as easy as "just" hack them - they have security in place as well :D

[jcw122]

OK thanks all. And pretty cool info Mr. Guv, i always saw their sites as crappy looking, and guessed they had crappy security, but i guess not.

[gt24]

OK thanks all. And pretty cool info Mr. Guv, i always saw their sites as crappy looking, and guessed they had crappy security, but i guess not.

There was a screensaver out designed to "hack them", where them ment a spam host. The screensaver was designed to DDOS the spammer. However, the screensaver was then attacked in return and reprogrammed to attack the origional person who wrote it... yeah, that wasn't good on the designer's side...

In other words, if you want to "lower yourself to their level"... fine... but your playing on their home turf, and they have had lots of practice. Somehow, I don't think this is a wise idea... :)

[klingens]

A few things: what the spyware peddling slime is doing is not illegal or all those companies would've been sued and shut down a long time ago. Even if they were, they'd just relocate to China, Korea or somewhere else. Most (>90% perhaps?) of those companies are US based, but we in Europe still get as much spyware and spam.

Also if someone steals something from you doesn't mean you're allowed to steal something from him. The judge will sentence you has as harsh as him.

There are many projects, scripts, websites,etc devoted to constantly requesting pages from a spammer's webserver to run up his traffic and therefore costs. The Lycos screensaver mentioned is just the most marketed in the immediate past. It was also a failure and isn't working anymore either. Other projects are trying to flood their databases with garbage to make marketing data bogus and therefore worthless. Just look around , google a bit and you will see many different grassroots projects to sour the leeches' game.

Just don't expect those projects and initiatives to get a writeup in the mainstream mass media: the media is totally dependent on advertising so they don't want to give people methods to defend themselves against marketing of course.