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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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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Internet users are being given the chance to hit back at the spammers that have become the scourge of the web, thanks to free software being distributed by Lycos Europe, the internet portal.
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Users should be wary of pressing the 'click here to remove' link on spam messages because it serves to confirm to spammers that junk mail messages are being read.
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Beware of any e-mail claiming to come from "frauddep@ftc.gov"--it carries a nasty payload.
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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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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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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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Application that claimed to "spam the spammers" caused much controversy.
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We're being inundated by spam.  How could community-based approaches help?
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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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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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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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Opt-out button in spam used to run exploit
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Lycos Europe released a screen saver that would pepper spam sites with requests for pages, in an effort to burden their bandwidth.  Now it's disabled, but in very fixable ways...
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Challenge/response e-mails accidentally marked as spam by AOL and EarthLink.
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A screensaver targeting spam-related websites appears to have been too successful.