Anti-spam screensaver scrapped
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A controversial campaign by Lycos Europe to attack websites run by spammers has been shut down.
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Lycos Europe&#39;s Make Love Not Spam screensaver was unavailable Saturday following a string of bad publicity, Cnet News.com reported.
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A common spamming technique of sending unwanted e-mail pitches as image attachments rather than text is on the decline, as spammers continue adapting their methods for sneaking past e-mail filters.
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I should have known... The idiots want to rule the Reddit I started for Scripting News readers. I couldn't figure out how to delete it, and while trying, I deleted my account, so forget the experiment, and if anyone at Reddit is listening, could you please delete it for me. (I sent an email but there was no response.) Still diggin!
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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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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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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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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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This is pretty interesting, seems as though Microsoft has acquired an anti-spyware company noone&#39;s ever heard of. I know spyware and adware removal software is big business now but I&#39;ve never heard of Giant Company Software Inc.
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Software giant is taking the covers off its security intelligence.  About time.
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Questions regarding potential patent issues and skepticism from the  open source community relating to Microsoft's (Nasdaq: MSFT) SenderID have prompted global Internet service provider AOL (NYSE: AOL) to drop the anti-spam technology.
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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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A controversial anti-spam campaign by Lycos Europe appears to have been put on hold.
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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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According to antivirus company F-Secure, the file inside the e-mail attachment is not the Lycos &quot;Make Love Not Spam&quot; screensaver.
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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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Lycos Europe has yanked its &quot;Make Love, Not Spam&quot; anti-spam screensaver from its site, leaving only a cryptic message of &quot;Stay Tuned&quot; in its place.