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URL that crashes browser

mike

2007-03-24, 7:18 am

Anyone have a URL handy that would XXXX up a visitors browser,
generate thousands of popups, ping it to death or whatever? My domain
recognises past spammers IPs and bans them, but the XXXXers keep
coming back anyway with their bots attempting to register again, so
I'd like to redirect them to somewhere where I might inflict just a
token toward the amount of inconvenience they've caused me. Only seems
fair...

Karl Groves

2007-03-24, 7:19 pm

mike <yada@yada.yada> wrote in news:j8u903puom5noa7n2njrv0qpkm6m86ncvv@
4ax.com:

> Anyone have a URL handy that would XXXX up a visitors browser,
> generate thousands of popups, ping it to death or whatever? My domain
> recognises past spammers IPs and bans them, but the XXXXers keep
> coming back anyway with their bots attempting to register again, so
> I'd like to redirect them to somewhere where I might inflict just a
> token toward the amount of inconvenience they've caused me. Only seems
> fair...
>

How could you possibly inconvenience something that lacks consciousness
necessary to "feel" inconvenienced? If you're targeting bots, there's no
human there to feel anything. Just bounce them.

I've found that if you give them a 404 (or even better, 403) response, they
stop coming.

--
Karl Groves
http://www.thehotrodclassifieds.com

Brian Wakem

2007-03-24, 7:19 pm

mike wrote:

> Anyone have a URL handy that would XXXX up a visitors browser,
> generate thousands of popups, ping it to death or whatever? My domain
> recognises past spammers IPs and bans them, but the XXXXers keep
> coming back anyway with their bots attempting to register again, so
> I'd like to redirect them to somewhere where I might inflict just a
> token toward the amount of inconvenience they've caused me. Only seems
> fair...

Bots aren't browsers. Pop-ups wont pop-up and the owner wont know or care
where you've redirected it.

--
Brian Wakem
Email: http://homepage.ntlworld.com/b.wakem/myemail.png

Dean Feldman

2007-03-24, 7:20 pm

BBM

2007-03-25, 11:19 pm

On Mar 24, 5:15 am, mike <y...@yada.yada> wrote:
> Anyone have a URL handy that would XXXX up a visitors browser,
> generate thousands of popups, ping it to death or whatever? My domain
> recognises past spammers IPs and bans them, but the XXXXers keep
> coming back anyway with their bots attempting to register again, so
> I'd like to redirect them to somewhere where I might inflict just a
> token toward the amount of inconvenience they've caused me. Only seems
> fair...

Any such tactic like that would only help if they were doing it
manually, which is unlikely (though I've heard that the members of /b/
managed to perform a few manual DoS attacks...)

The closest page I could give you to 'thousands of popups' is
http://www.angelfire.com/psy/mostannoying/ (copy of
mostannoyingwebpage.com, but the domain expired and was turned into
one of those generic ad webpages) -- 150 consecutive JavaScript alerts
before the rest of the page attempts to load.