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Lycos Screen Saver Attacks Spammers
Old 12-02-2004, 04:32 PM   #1
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Default Lycos Screen Saver Attacks Spammers

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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.
http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/interne....ap/index.html

Lycos Europe's zombie campaign downs two sites

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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.
http://news.com.com/Lycos+Europes+zo...3-5474963.html

Cool, finally a way to fight back. And it's already shut-down two crazy chinese spam factories. Everyone download this and help defeat spammers!
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Old 12-02-2004, 05:28 PM   #2
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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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Old 12-03-2004, 09:26 AM   #3
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Default Re: Lycos Screen Saver Attacks Spammers

but i dont use a screen saver...whenever im not at my comp, i just turn off my monitor

and what kind of spam does it fight anyway? pop-ups?

it's to early in the morning for me to read the article
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