Lycos Shuts Down Controversial Screensaver
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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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com. Lycos Europe is taking the fight to the enemy, launching a screensaver that conducts a group denial-of-service attack against sites marketing products via spam.
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Lycos has withdrawn its &quot;Make love not spam&quot; application after a string of negative criticism. Visitors to the Web site were presented Friday with a graphic urging them to &quot;stay tuned.
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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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As quickly as it came, it left. Lycos Europe&#39;s anti-spam campaign, &quot;Make LOVE Not SPAM,&quot; (see our coverage appears to have been canned, as the screensaver has been pulled from the ISP&#39;s website.
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A campaign by Lycos Europe to target spam-related websites appears to have been put on hold. Earlier this week the company released a screensaver that bombarded the sites with data to try to bump up the running costs of the websites.
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A contentious campaign to bump up the bandwidth bills of spammers by flooding their sites with data has been dropped. Lycos Europe&#39;s Make Love, Not Spam campaign began in late November but its tactics proved controversial.
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A legal row over leaked details of Apple products ends with the rumours site being shut down.
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Madrid - At the risk of breaching Internet civility, Lycos Europe is offering computer-users a weapon against spam-spewing servers: a screen-saver program that automatically hits the offenders with data to slow them down.
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Internet users fed up with spam can go on the offensive by downloading a screen saver aimed at hitting junkmailers in the pocket, according to Net portal Lycos.
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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
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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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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.
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Lycos Europe debuted a new weapon in the war against unwanted e-mail Tuesday, by launching a screensaver designed to overload the Web sites featured in spam messages.
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Just days after Lycos Europe&#39;s launch of an anti-spam DDoS tool raised eyebrows in the security space, the company appears to have scrapped the campaign.