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Posted by: Sean Kelly

Lycos Offers Spam-Server Attack Program

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At the risk of breaching Internet civility, a European Web portal is offering its visitors a weapon against spam: a screensaver program that tries to choke spam servers by flooding them with junk traffic.

As of Tuesday, about 65,000 people have signed up for the controversial tool from the German-based Lycos Europe, whose sites get 20 million users monthly.


Awesome!
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Posted by: gaboman

hehehe that's so cool. About time someone did something worthwhile to fight that crap.

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Posted by: Sean Kelly

Ah well - it was fun while it lasted.

Lycos Europe Ends Spam-Fighting Campaign

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The Web portal Lycos Europe on Friday terminated a spam-fighting campaign that had been criticized as a breach of Internet civility.

The decision follows complaints from security experts that Lycos was acting as a vigilante and could potentially harm legitimate Web sites by distributing a screensaver program that aims to overwhelm what Lycos defines as spam servers.
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Posted by: nikiTa

I wouldn't trust Lycos for spam fighting if my life depended on it.
This wonderful group has a beautiful spyware program that I spend hours cleaning up every week.
Sure, while fighting spam, they drop a nice little spyware program onto your machine...virtually undetectable...except for us spykillers. SWAT

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