Lycos screen saver attacks spammers
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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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Lycos Europe has apparently pulled the plug on its effort to orchestrate denial of service attacks against selected spammers. Earlier last week, the online community/portal company
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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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Haarlem (pts) - The Internet portal Lycos http://www.lycos-europe.com has developed a screensaver that endlessly requests data from sites that sell the goods and services mentioned in spam e-mail.
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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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Spammers are a key adopter of a technology meant, in part, to fight spam.
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Screensaver offers to "spam the spammers," but not everyone is pleased with its message.
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Lycos Anti-Spam "Make Love Not Spam" Service Launched  Lycos has apparently been the target of spam attacks following the release of their anti-spam deny of service campaign. The BlogBloke reports on this new happening in the anti-spam wars "It's payback time! Lycos Europe is distributing (for free) a screensaver that targets ...
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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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Lycos made headlines during the past several days by distributing a screensaver designed to swamp the sites of those deemed responsible for spam with traffic, in effect giving spammers, at least the companies that bankroll them, a taste of their own
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Another day, another filter-evading tactic from the spammer. This time, they're pitching their woo in the form of e-mail stationery "backgrounds," which aren't generally scanned by filtering tools. Experts say the trend is rising.
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Internet portal Lycos has made a screensaver that endlessly requests data from sites that sell the goods and services mentioned in spam e-mail.
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Several Internet companies, including Microsoft and eBay, are working on new ways to keep spammers from infiltrating their sites.
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The online community/portal company&#39;s offensive against spammers began this week, when it started distributing a screensaver that conducts a denial-of-service attack against sites that market products via spam.
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Internet portal Lycos has designed a new type of screensaver, one which constantly requests data from sites that sell items featured in spam emails.
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bulk messages clogging instant-messaging accounts. AOL and its Anti-Spam Alliance partners -- EarthLink, Microsoft, and Yahoo
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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.