Lycos Anti-Spam Attack More Powerful than Intended
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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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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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Unknown DDoS tool, predecessors A deluge of Trojan-laced spam that slyly tricked recipients by promising information about winter storms ravaging Northern Europe last month was even more crafty than we thought.â¦
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Malware arrives in an e-mail message, launches denial of service attack.
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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 new application from Lycos Europe aims to fight back against spammers, but some experts say the company may be enabling illegal activities.
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Try not to smile: A top spammer may be sentenced to hard time.
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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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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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New antispam technology standards are on the way that promise to hit spammers where it hurts the most--their wallets. At issue is the ability to authenticate the original source of e-mail messages, a major
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Latest spam blast invites recipients to see themselves in a video, but 'YouTube' link leads to malware.
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Spammers are a key adopter of a technology meant, in part, to fight spam.
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Aggressive spam blasts against specific domains disrupt small and midsize businesses.
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THE spammed can now hit back at the spammers with new software from Lycos called Make Love, Not Spam. The software sits on your PC and when the machine is not in use, it generates traffic on the sites of known
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Spammers exploit your Achillesâ heel (or other body part).
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A technological weapon against unwanted ''spam&quot; e-mails that has been embraced by leading Internet companies doesn't work as well as its developers had hoped, according to a new study.
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Challenge/response e-mails accidentally marked as spam by AOL and EarthLink.