Lycos pulls antispam screensaver from site
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Lycos Europe appeared to have pulled a controversial antispam screensaver program from its site, after coming under fire from both security experts and the spammers themselves.
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Virus writers have begun distributing their wares in emails that pose as Lycos's abandoned "Make love not spam" screensaver.
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InfoWorld - A security company has identified a Trojan horse program that replaces Google text advertisements on Web pages with ads from another source, depriving Google of revenue and potentially causing problems for end users.
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Even though it&#39;s been withdrawn, the Lycos anti-spam screensaver is not forgotten. Rollie Hawk writes &quot;And with this, the &#39;What&#39;s Good for the Goose...&#39; award goes to all those people trying to install that
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Spammers are suspected of hacking into and downing Lycosâs anti-spam Web site just hours after it went live. The Web site is currently inaccessible and could also be the victim of a DDoS attack.
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Lycos UK has withdrawn its anti-spam screensaver download from its portal following criticism that the vigilante-style programme had been too successful against spammersâ websites, shutting down a range of sites.
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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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Lycos Europe NV is offering Internet users a way to stick it to spammers with its new screen-saver software, called &quot;Make Love, Not Spam.
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A malicious email purporting to offer a link to download Lycos&#39; controversial spam busting screensaver is infecting users with a Trojan - proving that the fall out from the botched and now ditched service will continue to cause users pain.
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Striking out against spammers (sounds good already!) Lycos have developed a screensaver that should help to put the nasty blighters out of business.
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Lycos Europe launched a free screensaver that deliberately clogs spam servers. The &quot;Make Love Not Spam&quot; screensaver, available in both Mac and PC formats, sends HTTP requests to a list of servers that Lycos
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The &quot;Make Love Not Spam&quot; screensaver has been temporarily pulled while Lycos deals with hosting and management issues, according to a company spokesman.
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Lycos Europe&#39;s Make Love Not Spam screensaver was unavailable Saturday following a string of bad publicity, Cnet News.com reported.
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A virus that spies on keystrokes and downloads passwords and bank account details is circulating among emails, masquerading as a screensaver designed by internet portal Lycos to attack stammers, a watchdog warned on Thursday.
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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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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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Lycos Europe has released a special screensaver for Windows and the Mac OS platforms that will attack spam web pages. The screensaver âMake Love No Spamâ will overload a variety of spam servers by flooding