MADRID, Spain (AP) -- 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.
Lycos Europe's "Make love not spam" campaign has killed access to some of the Web sites of its target alleged spammers, Netcraft has found.
According to the Internet traffic monitoring company, Lycos Europe has successfully taken two Web sites hosted in China offline. The sites are bokwhdok.com and printmediaprofits.biz, according to a posting on Netcraft's Web site, dated this week.
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Re: Lycos Screen Saver Attacks Spammers
Haha, this is great! *downloads*
Edit: oh wait, I have a data limit and I'm downloading the EU Beta for WoW, so I better not use that program now.... It sends packages from my computer to their site, right?
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