Lycos Europe Folds Anti-Spam Plan
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Just three days after launching the anti-spam initiative &quot;Make Love Not Spam&quot; to worldwide publicity, Lycos Europe officially pulled the plug on the plan.
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NEW YORK Just four days after it began, a spam-fighting campaign by Web portal Lycos Europe has been ended on the grounds the cure might be worse than the disease.
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A Las Vegas pornography operation  that sent out hundreds of thousands of sexually explicit "spam"  e-mail messages has been temporarily shut down in the first  case of federal spam laws being used against sex marketers,  U.S. regulators said on Tuesday.
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Lycos Europe, a separate company than Lycos (United States), stated that all allegations of its &quot;Make Love Not Spam&quot; campaign site being defaced by hackers are incorrect.
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DECEMBER 02, 2004 (IDG NEWS SERVICE) - Lycos Europe NV is caught in a tit-for-tat struggle with spammers just days after releasing a free screen saver program that uses computer downtime 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&#39;s &quot;Make love not spam&quot; campaign has killed access to some of the Web sites of its target alleged spammers, Netcraft has found.
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Internet firm Lycos UK released free screensaver software that allows users to attack spammers using the same mass mailing techniques the spammers themselves use to fill up the worldâs inboxes.
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In order to stop the spread of spam, Microsoft will start charging users who use Outlook or Outlook Express to access e-mail. It will stop being free in April of 2005.
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Lycos vigilante attack on spammers has been hit by a vigilante attack. Spammers are suspected.
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Lycos Europe launched a free screensaver that deliberately clogs spam servers. The &quot;Make Love Not Spam&quot; screensaver, available in both Mac and PC formats, sends HTTP requests to a list of servers that Lycos
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AOL has taken a step back from an earlier stance and agreed to support the Microsoft-backed anti-spam technology Sender ID. The reconsideration followed Microsoft&#39;s retooling of the technology
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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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After a week of well-deserved criticism, Lycos is abandoning its scheme to launch denial-of-service attacks against spammy websites.  Did the company reform in time to avoid criminal prosecution?
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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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Lycos Europe has apparently pulled the plug on its effort to orchestrate denial of service attacks against selected spammers. Earlier last week, the online community/portal company
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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.