Lycos Europe anti-spam Screensaver bites the dust!
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Although close on 100,000 people downloaded the free screensaver, it received a great deal of criticism. Many believed it lowered itself to the tactics of the spammers themselves and could have caused more problems than it solved.
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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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Striking out against spammers (sounds good already!) Lycos have developed a screensaver that should help to put the nasty blighters out of business.
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A virus that spies on keystrokes and downloads passwords and bank account details is circulating among emails, masquerading as a screensaver designed by internet portal Lycos to attack stammers, a watchdog warned on Thursday.
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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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Screensaver offers to "spam the spammers," but not everyone is pleased with its message.
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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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Even though it&#39;s been withdrawn, the Lycos anti-spam screensaver is not forgotten. Rollie Hawk writes &quot;And with this, the &#39;What&#39;s Good for the Goose...&#39; award goes to all those people trying to install that
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p2pnet.net News:- If you&#39;ve wondered just how much people hate spam, wonder no more. A couple of days back, Lycos Germany launched a vigilante screen-saver to beat people sending out advertiusing junk mail at their own game.
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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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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 this week introduced a controversial weapon in the fight against spam: a screensaver that attacks spam Web sites. Lycos&#39; &quot;Make Love, Not Spam&quot; screensaver software is designed to use a PC&#39;s spare
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Internet portal Lycos has made a screensaver that endlessly requests data from sites that sell the goods and services mentioned in spam e-mail.
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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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Plus: Most email over holidays will be spam. [News.com Extra]
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A screen saver may now be your shield against spam websites, all thanks to a screen saver dveloped by Internet portal Lycos ,which is capable of making spam servers go flat by overloading them with continuous spam requests.
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Haarlem (pts) - The Internet portal Lycos http://www.lycos-europe.com has developed a screensaver that endlessly requests data from sites that sell the goods and services mentioned in spam e-mail.