Lycos offers customers program to attack spam servers
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MADRID, Spain Some computer users are about to find out if fighting fire with fire works when they fight spam with spam. German-based Lycos Europe offers a free screensaver program that hits back at spam senders by flooding them with junk traffic.
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Lycos vigilante attack on spammers has been hit by a vigilante attack. Spammers are suspected.
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An identity-stealing e-mail Trojan horse that disguises itself as the Lycos Europe antispam screensaver is being distributed around the Internet, an antivirus company has warned.
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A screensaver targeting spam-related websites could help drive spammers out of business.
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Internet firm Lycos UK released free screensaver software that allows users to attack spammers using the same mass mailing techniques the spammers themselves use to fill up the worldâs inboxes.
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SPAM FIGHTING super hero software behemoth Microsoft has come up with a wizard way of stopping those who send spam from its free Hotmail accounts.
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p2pnet.net News:- If you&#39;ve wondered just how much people hate spam, wonder no more. A couple of days back, Lycos Germany launched a vigilante screen-saver to beat people sending out advertiusing junk mail at their own game.
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Lycos&#39; European anti-spam website was taken down only hours after it went live. The outage appears to be the result of a DDoS attack, most likely initiated by spammers in response to the search engine&#39;s &quot;Make
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At the risk of breaching Internet civility, a European Web portal is offering its visitors a weapon against spam: a screensaver program that tries to choke spam servers by flooding them with junk traffic.
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Lycos Europe&#39;s controversial anti-spam efforts had a bumpy first week, with various availability problems, some of which may have been caused by the same spammers the site targeted with distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks.
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Malware arrives in an e-mail message, launches denial of service attack.
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Spammers have turned to the use of PDF-based e-mail messages to try to slip under the security radar and get their messages through to unsuspecting recipients.
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Lycos is caught in a tit-for-tat struggle with spammers, just days after releasing a free screen saver software program that uses computer down time to swamp Web sites associated with spam campaigns.
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Even in the fleeting and transitory world of technology, Lycos&#39; spam-busting screensaver was the most short-lived of initiatives.
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Lycos Europe Cans Anti-Spam Effort  Lycos Europe attempted to get back at the leading spammers of the world through an initiative called âMakeLoveNotSpamâ. The move was applauded by the ordinary user of the web considering more than a lakh users downloaded the screensaver from the official website. However, many ISPs and ...
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ZDNet UK reports that Lycos Europe&#39;s in-your-face anti-spam promotion may have been more effective than it intended. Ostensibly designed to slow but not take down spam servers, the &quot;Make Love Not Spam&quot; distributed
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A plan to bump up the bandwidth bills of spammers seems to be getting out of control. Earlier this week Lycos Europe released a screensaver that bombards spam websites with data to try to increase the cost of running such sites.