Lycos screen saver attacks 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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Internet portal Lycos has designed a new type of screensaver, one which constantly requests data from sites that sell items featured in spam emails.
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As quickly as it came, it left. Lycos Europe&#39;s anti-spam campaign, &quot;Make LOVE Not SPAM,&quot; (see our coverage appears to have been canned, as the screensaver has been pulled from the ISP&#39;s website.
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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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Alternative browser features protection against online scams.
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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 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
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Another day, another filter-evading tactic from the spammer. This time, they're pitching their woo in the form of e-mail stationery "backgrounds," which aren't generally scanned by filtering tools. Experts say the trend is rising.
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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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A new application from Lycos Europe aims to fight back against spammers, but some experts say the company may be enabling illegal activities.
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New software allows recipients of spam to band together to target known websites behind the messages. The idea is to bombard the sites with messages, slowing them down and making them more expensive to run.
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At the risk of breaching Internet civility, a European Web portal is offering its visitors a weapon against spam: a screensaver program that tries to choke spam servers by flooding them with junk traffic.
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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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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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Madrid - 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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bulk messages clogging instant-messaging accounts. AOL and its Anti-Spam Alliance partners -- EarthLink, Microsoft, and Yahoo
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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.