Quote from: FarmerBob on November 01, 2012, 05:23 amSometimes the best defense is a good offense.If you see spam on the forums or receive spam in your inbox consider fighting back for a few hours.Try DOS attacking themSend garbage data to their website. If enough people do it it can knock them offline. At the very least it will drive up their bandwidth costs and hitting them in the wallet should teach them an important lesson.Here's how you can do it:Go to http://sourceforge.net/projects/loicdownload the LOIC exe file (my virus scanner reports this as a "medium risk hacking tool" but oh well)run the program and enter the spammer website in the "target url" box (for example www.btkoin.com) and hit "lock on"In the "attack options" box select TCP or UDP and put in some random TCP/UDP message "fuck you spammers"then hit the "IMMA CHARGIN MAH LAZER"At this point it will begin flooding the site. Leave it running when you're not using your computer and it will eat up their bandwidth.I should disclose that I know very little about networks & computers but seem to have figured this out with the help of google.I should also mention that if you do not wish to download an executable there is a web version at : http://lowc.comlu.com But I'm not sure if it works right on my machine. If anyone who knows more about this has suggestions feel free to add them.Good Luck & Best RegardsBobBob, this is not only BAD advice, it is DANGEROUS advice. I watched a film the other day, "We Are Legion: The Story of the Hacktivists"One of the people featured in that film was a young man (Brian Mettenbrink) who naively joined the call by Anonymous to attack the Church of Scientology. He had downloaded LOIC, and used it to DDOS the Church's website. Sometime later he was visited by the FBI, and ended up being charged with a computer crime. He had assumed, in his naivete, that this would be only a matter of a small fine, perhaps two hundred dollars or thereabouts. So, imagine his surprise, when he was charged with a felony! The prosecution painted him as some type of computer terrorist. The potential jail sentence was 5 years in jail, and $100,000 in fines. He was convicted, and spent a year in jail, followed by a year of supervised release. After getting out of jail, under the terms of his release, he is unable to even so much as touch a computer -- if he does so, he goes back to jail. You are NOT ANONYMOUS if you use LOIC -- you can be traced very easily. If anyone follows your advice, they potentially risk criminal prosecution, just for using LOIC. If someone's computer is forensically examined, and the authorities determine that they are buying drugs off of Silk Road, then the computer crime charges may only be the beginning. Nightcrawler