Lycos Europe Pulls Spam-Fighting Screensaver
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Analysts say a new twist on the war against spammers in Europe isn&#39;t likely to spill across Unites States borders, but is rather an opening salvo more likely to fizzle than to explode.
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A screensaver targeting spam-related websites appears to have been too successful.
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Lycos Europe has recently joined the fight against spam by releasing a screensaver as part of its "Make Love Not Spam" campaign, which uses its participants machines to bombard websites that advertise through spam e-mails with data, effectively launching a distributed denial of service attack against them, with the intent being to push up bandwidth bills of the spammers who operate these websites.    Is this an effective new front in the battle against spam?
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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
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Lycos Europe NV drew criticism from some members of the security community who said the company is engaging in vigilantism and crossing the line by launching what are essentially distributed DOS attacks on spammers' sites.
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Lycos Europe has shut down its screensaver, makelovenotspam, which delighted many Internet users with the opportunity to flood spammers&#39; Web sites with junk e-mail.
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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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Lycos has called a ceasefire in the battle against internet spammers by suspending its Make Love Not Spam portal, designed to put bulk mail senders out of business.
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A screensaver targeting spam-related websites could help drive spammers out of business.
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Lycos vigilante attack on spammers has been hit by a vigilante attack. Spammers are suspected.
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New York - The Web portal Lycos Europe on Friday terminated a spam-fighting campaign that had been criticized as a breach of Internet civility.
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Lycos Europe&#39;s &quot;Make love not spam&quot; campaign has killed access to some of the Web sites of its target alleged spammers, Netcraft has found.
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Internet users are being given the chance to hit back at the spammers that have become the scourge of the web, thanks to free software being distributed by Lycos Europe, the internet portal.
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Earlier this week, the online community/portal company started distributing a screensaver that conducted the attacks by making requests from servers &quot;verified to be spam-advertising sites,&quot; Lycos said.
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In a new take on fighting spam, Web portal Lycos Europe has launched a screensaver designed to bombard Web sites promoted in unsolicited e-mail.
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A Lycos spokesperson explained that the screen saver had been pulled while the company deals with hosting and management issues. He said it had been downloaded by over 100,000 users.
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The Web portal Lycos Europe on Friday terminated a spam-fighting campaign that had been criticized as a breach of Internet civility.