Lycos Pulls Anti-Spam Screensaver
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Lycos has officially pulled their controversial anti-spam screensaver from their website. Lycos Europeâs website was, until early this morning, distributing an âanti-spam screensaverâ as part of its âMake Love Not Spamâ campaign.
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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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A screensaver targeting spam-related websites appears to have been too successful.
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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.
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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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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Lycos has withdrawn its &quot;Make love not spam&quot; application after a string of negative criticism.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 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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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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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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com. Lycos Europe took the fight to the enemy Monday, by launching a screensaver that conducts a group denial-of-service (DoS) attack against sites selling products marketed via spam.
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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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Lycos is caught in a tit-for-tat struggle with spammers, just days after releasing a free screen saver software program that uses computer down time to swamp Web sites associated with spam campaigns.
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Lycos&#39; &quot;Make Love, Not Spam&quot; screensaver targets sites on secure international blacklists. &quot;We cannot use this software to bring the spammers&#39; sites down entirely, as that would be illegal,&quot; says Malte Pollman of Lycos Europe.
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Lycos Europe launched the "Make Love, Not Spam" screensaver, which repeatedly requests information from Web sites advertised in spam, reducing the performance of those sites.
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A controversial anti-spam campaign by Lycos Europe appears to have been put on hold.