Trojan Mimics Controversial Lycos Europe Screensaver
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According to antivirus company F-Secure, the file inside the e-mail attachment is not the Lycos &quot;Make Love Not Spam&quot; screensaver.
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Just days after releasing a free screen saver program that uses computer downtime to swamp Web sites associated with spam, Lycos Europe has found itself caught in a fight with spammers.
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Online miscreants have released a Trojan horse that can infect computers running Microsoft&#39;s Windows XP, installing programs to remotely control a victim&#39;s system.
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Web site visitors who clicked on banner ads on a number of popular European Web sites this weekend could have infected their computers with variants of the Bofra worm, experts warned on Monday.
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Skype warns users password-stealing Trojan horse is making the rounds, disguised as a Skype security plug-in
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The &quot;Skulls&quot; Trojan, which bills itself as &quot;Extended Theme Manager&quot; by &quot;Tee-222,&quot; has been found on Symbian shareware download sites.
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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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Even in the fleeting and transitory world of technology, Lycos&#39; spam-busting screensaver was the most short-lived of initiatives.
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The screensaver launched last week appeared to be a victim of its own success after it was believed over 100,000 people downloaded it within hours of Lycos Europe putting the specially designed screensaver online.
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Symantec warns Net users of Trojan horse that removes adware but alters security settings in computers.
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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&#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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Popular Web sites like MySpace and Photobucket has banner ads containing malicious code that could lead to the compromise of a computer.
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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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"Make love not spam" screensaver continues to stir up controversy.
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p2pnet.net News:- If you&#39;ve wondered just how much people hate spam, wonder no more. A couple of days back, Lycos Germany launched a vigilante screen-saver to beat people sending out advertiusing junk mail at their own game.
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A screensaver developed by Lycos Europe that gives spammers a dose of their own medicine is attracting plenty of attention, but not all of it good.