Lycos Europe&#39;s antispam tool no longer available
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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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A controversial campaign by Lycos Europe to attack websites run by spammers has been shut down.
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Opt-out button in spam used to run exploit
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Lycos Europe has released a special screensaver for Windows and the Mac OS platforms that will attack spam web pages. The screensaver âMake Love No Spamâ will overload a variety of spam servers by flooding
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Just days after releasing a free screen saver program that uses computer downtime to swamp Web sites associated with spam, Lycos Europe has found itself caught in a fight with spammers.
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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 has officially pulled their controversial anti-spam screensaver from their website. Lycos Europeâs website was, until early this morning, distributing an âanti-spam screensaverâ as part of its âMake Love Not Spamâ campaign.
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America Online (AOL) has ditched Microsoft&#39;s Sender ID technology in favour of Sender Policy Framework (SPF). The move follows concerns over Sender ID voiced by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) earlier this week.
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New York - The Web portal Lycos Europe on Friday terminated a spam-fighting campaign that had been criticized as a breach of Internet civility.
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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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A pharming attack that targeted online banking customers in the U.S., Europe and Asia-Pacific has been shut down.
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Internet portal Lycos Europe has denied that its &quot;Make love not spam&quot; Web site was hacked into and defaced last night. The company said that an e-mail that contained an apparent mirror image of the Web site being hacked was a hoax generated by spammers.
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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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The anti-spam action pioneered by Lycos and its &#39;make love not spam&#39; campaign has been all-too successful and could make the company vulnerable to legal attack.
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Just days after Lycos Europe&#39;s launch of an anti-spam DDoS tool raised eyebrows in the security space, the company appears to have scrapped the campaign.
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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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Several antispam organizations have been targeted by an attempt to knock them offline.