Lycos Europe Pulls Spam-Fighting Screensaver
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Analysts say a new twist on the war against spammers in Europe isn&#39;t likely to spill across Unites States borders, but is rather an opening salvo more likely to fizzle than to explode.
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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.
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The &quot;Make Love Not Spam&quot; screensaver has been temporarily pulled while Lycos deals with hosting and management issues, according to a company spokesman.
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Lycos&#39; European anti-spam website was taken down only hours after it went live. The outage appears to be the result of a DDoS attack, most likely initiated by spammers in response to the search engine&#39;s &quot;Make
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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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THE spammed can now hit back at the spammers with new software from Lycos called Make Love, Not Spam. The software sits on your PC and when the machine is not in use, it generates traffic on the sites of known
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Earlier this week, the online community/portal company started distributing a screensaver that conducted the attacks by making requests from servers &quot;verified to be spam-advertising sites,&quot; Lycos said.
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LONDON - People hacked off with spammers who clog up their inbox with junk email can now get revenge in a new campaign by Lycos, urging the world to &#39;Make Love, Not Spam&#39;.
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Lycos UK has withdrawn its anti-spam screensaver download from its portal following criticism that the vigilante-style programme had been too successful against spammersâ websites, shutting down a range of sites.
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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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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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com. Lycos Europe is taking the fight to the enemy, launching a screensaver that conducts a group denial-of-service attack against sites marketing products via spam.
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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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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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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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An identity-stealing e-mail Trojan horse that disguises itself as the Lycos Europe antispam screensaver is being distributed around the Internet, an antivirus company has warned.
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Internet portal Lycos Europe has denied that its &quot;Make love not spam&quot; Web site was hacked into and defaced last night. The company said that an e-mail that contained an apparent mirror image of the Web site being hacked was a hoax generated by spammers.