Anti spam company Blue security accepts defeat

Faced with a massive denial of service attack and a threat to infect its users' computers with virus-laden spam, internet anti spam vigilante company Blue Security accepted defeat and decided to fold up operations.

We always knew it, didn't we? The Force is weak, and the Dark Side always wins. Guess Blue Secutiry didn't know that. Much as we are fans of Superman and many others who wear their underwear on top iof their trousers, we know that unlike in comics, evil always wins. And so it was in this case too. A Russian spam organization, fronted by someone who calles himself PharmaMaster, brought Blue Secutiry to its knees.

Blue Security seemed to have had a pile of customers and subscribers. When faced with spam mail, what Blue Security would do was to first request the spammers to cease and desist. And if they don't after a few requests, Blue Security would attack back. Spam mail usually contains links to websites which use the spammers' services - and Blue Security would use its users' computers to launch what we hear is "post cease-and-desist requests on the Web sites advertised in the spam". We dont know how they managed to do it, we have no clue about spamming techniques. But we hear that what Blue Security did back to them amounted practically to a complete disruption of the evil websites.

Anyway, spammers decided they had enough of Blue Security, and decided to hit back. They commandeered tens of thousands of computers and launched a massive DoS (denial of service) attack on Blue Security's computers. This brought Blue Security to its knees. on top of that, a threat by PharmaMaster that Bue security's users' computers would be infected with virus (Virii?!) did the job.

Blue Security is not going out of the business, but they will be exploring other means of tackling the problem.

What confuses me is, if it was that easy (okay, maybe quite dificult but not impossible) for a spammer to counterattack Blue Security, why did they try it to begin with? It was not easy to predict? It was unexpected? I have no idea, and I suppose the detaisl will never be available easily either. Or even that I would understand spamming and counter spamming and denial of service attack tactics. Anyway, here's to another fallen hero.