Are you sick of receving spam email? I know I am. Regular readers will know I often bring news of new attempts to combat spam. And here’s the latest.

Blue Security want to tap into your dormant rage and fight back. Dont worry you wont be alone, you’ll have a posse. They’re organzing thousands of weary victims of spam and leading them in a kind of distributed denial of service attack. Its a weapon normally emaployed by malicious hackers who use hijacked PCs to flood unsuspecting companies, but Blue Security are out to cripple offensive bulk emailers.

Blue security dont use the term DDoS instead they perfer “active deterence”. Here how the counter attack works: download the Blue Frog software (named after the cute but deadly poisonous South American frog found in rain forests) – this creates an email account in your name and seeds it around the internet to attract unsolicited offers. The company’s analyst’s sift through the messages and find, say, a Viagra spammer who’s violating key provisions of the Can-Spam Act of 2003. They’ll email the spammer in an attempt to opt out on behalf of Blue users and check the domain against block lists from antispam outfits like Spamhaus.org.

If rebuffed, Blue Security will send an automated script to your PC, or what it calls your Frog, and hundreds of others. The script orders the frog to visit the Viagra site, root around for the purchasing form, and use it to file a complaint. You can submit offending emails to Blue Security, but otherwise the process is automatic. The net effect is an onslaught of data traffic that gums up the servers at this “pharmacy,” bringing them to a standstill and forcing the operator to remove our email addresses from their list.

Please join me and support this online brand of vigilantism.