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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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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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, founders of the &quot;Make Love Not Spam&quot; initiative, has pulled their bandwidth-targeting screensaver from the site.
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INTERNET users fed up with spam can go on the offensive by downloading a screensaver aimed at hitting junkmailers in the pocket, net portal Lycos said.
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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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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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For the third month running, compromised computers in Europe have pushed out more spam than those in the U.S.
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Lycos Europe has recently joined the fight against spam by releasing a screensaver as part of its "Make Love Not Spam" campaign, which uses its participants machines to bombard websites that advertise through spam e-mails with data, effectively launching a distributed denial of service attack against them, with the intent being to push up bandwidth bills of the spammers who operate these websites.    Is this an effective new front in the battle against spam?
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Lycos Europe has started to offer a controversial screensaver that floods spammers&#39; servers with requests for info, similar to a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack.
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Lycos is caught in a tit-for-tat struggle with spammers, just days after releasing a free screen saver software program that uses computer down time to swamp Web sites associated with spam campaigns.
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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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Lycos Europe NV drew criticism from some members of the security community who said the company is engaging in vigilantism and crossing the line by launching what are essentially distributed DOS attacks on spammers' sites.
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After days of negative publicity and criticism, Lycos Europe&#39;s &quot;Make love not spam&quot; screensaver application is no longer available.
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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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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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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...