Lycos Europe Folds Anti-Spam Plan
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Just three days after launching the anti-spam initiative &quot;Make Love Not Spam&quot; to worldwide publicity, Lycos Europe officially pulled the plug on the plan.
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In a new take on fighting spam, Web portal Lycos Europe has launched a screensaver designed to bombard Web sites promoted in unsolicited e-mail.
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AN ISP CALLED Lycos has come up with a way of fighting spam that attacks the spammers servers. All you have to do is load a screensaver - &quot;Make Love Not Spam&quot; - available from Lycos Europe and it will requests
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Web hosting and connectivity company Savvis Communications on Wednesday confirmed that it has canceled about 40 accounts from businesses that were earmarked as 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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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.
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Lycos vigilante attack on spammers has been hit by a vigilante attack. Spammers are suspected.
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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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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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AOL is the latest and largest company to back away from Microsoft&#39;s Sender ID software, designed to cut spam by identifying the source of the email.
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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 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 Europe Cans Anti-Spam Effort  Lycos Europe attempted to get back at the leading spammers of the world through an initiative called âMakeLoveNotSpamâ. The move was applauded by the ordinary user of the web considering more than a lakh users downloaded the screensaver from the official website. However, many ISPs and ...
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Lycos Europe has axed the distribution of a controversial screensaver designed to target websites that profit from spam, claiming that the company has made its point.
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Lycos Europe&#39;s controversial anti-spam advertising campaign has been discontinued after only three days due to charges that it promotes vigilantism.
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Lycos claims to have come up with a novel solution to spam by letting the public get their revenge on the spammers. The company has developed a downloadable screensaver which generates traffic on the websites of known spammers.
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Lycos Europe took a bold step by starting the &#39;Make love not spam&#39; project. They can publicly backfiere some of the biggest spammers of the world.