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Lycos anti-spam weapon melts away
News The saga of the Lycos 'Make love not spam' screensaver took another twist on Friday morning when Lycos withdraw the controversial tool. Lycos has been heavily criticised for launching the 'Make love not spam' initiative, with experts accusing the...
[December 3, 2004, 12:45]
Lycos zombie army takes Web sites offline
News Web portal company Lycos's 'Make love not spam' campaign has killed access to some of the Web sites of its target spammers as the result of denial-of-service attacks. Yesterday, Lycos denied claims that it was hit by hacker attacks, but several...
[December 2, 2004, 11:15]
Lycos denies attack on zombie army
News Internet portal Lycos has denied its 'make love not spam' Web site was hacked into and defaced last night. Lycos launched its 'make love not spam' campaign, which offers users a screensaver that helps to launch distributed denial-of-service (DDoS...
[December 1, 2004, 12:50]
Lycos anti-spam campaign bites the dust
News This decision comes just a week after "Make Love Not Spam" was launched. He said that Lycos had reviewed "Make Love Not Spam" before deciding not to bring it back. In a statement from the company said: "We are astonished by the enormous resonance...
[December 6, 2004, 16:05]
Lycos army shoots itself in foot?
News Lycos may accidentally have launched a denial-of-service attack against its own anti-spam campaign Web site, "Make Love Not Spam". Lycos' 'Make love not spam' campaign was reported to have killed access to some of the Web sites it was targeting.
[December 2, 2004, 16:30]
Trojan poses as fake Lycos screensaver
News A lot of people heard about the screensaver but couldn't download it because the ["Make love not spam"] Web site was down. On Friday, Lycos terminated its "Make Love Not Spam" screen saver campaign after it was bombarded with criticism for...
[December 7, 2004, 11:00]
Lycos should send its zombie army home
Leader Only this time, the masses are zombie PCs controlled by Lycos' 'Make Love Not Spam' screensaver. Our knee-jerk reaction, therefore, is to laud Lycos for developing its screen saver that launches distributed denial-of-service attacks against known...
[December 1, 2004, 12:25]
Lycos anti-spam site hit by hackers
News Lycos on Tuesday kicked off its "make love not spam" campaign by offering users a screensaver that helps to launch distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks on spammers' Web sites. Finnish antivirus firm F-Secure, which advised users not to...
[December 1, 2004, 8:05]
Lycos denies attack on zombie army
Talkback Click on the Make Love Not Spam link and it takes you to http://makelovenotspam.com/intl/direct.html? Go to http://lycos.co.uk. lang=en®ion=uk, which is broken. Shorten it to http://makelovenotspam.com/ and you get a page displaying "Yes...
[December 1, 2004, 14:37]
Lycos launches anti-spam zombie army
News In its 'make love not spam' campaign, Lycos entices users to join the zombie army with the following message: Download the Make Love not Spam screensaver - the only screensaver that actively works to stop the spammers - and tell your friends to do...
[November 30, 2004, 12:55]
Wireless spam: How can it be stopped?
News Internet users have for years been complaining about unwanted email, or spam, with messages that promise everything from quick cash to an enhanced love life. Consumers now are concerned about spam sent to their wireless devices such as Internet...
[January 11, 2001, 12:05]
Using a five-layer filter to cut spam
Talkback We would love to figure out how to trun our system from a freely available one to one on which we can make money in order to recover the cost of maintaining the filter set. We eliminated almost half the spam by carefully reviewing the email...
[December 18, 2003, 1:49]
Lycos anti-spam site hit by hackers
Talkback Make Love Not Spam is back online. It was not hacked. I know.
[December 1, 2004, 21:16]
Fur protesters launch Web attacks
News Last year, Lycos' Make Love Not Spam campaign highlighted that DoS attacks are not covered by British law. The government has indicated that it wishes to update the Computer Misuse Act to make launching these attacks an offence, but at present...
[February 14, 2005, 16:10]
Spamming tool goes on the run
News The company quickly withdrew the "Make Love Not Spam" campaign after it received heavy industry criticism. Earlier this month, anti-spam campaigner Spamhaus accused MCI of harbouring spammers by allowing Send-Safe.com to be hosted on its network.
[February 28, 2005, 16:30]
Fur trade activists planning DoS attack
News Last year, Lycos' Make Love Not Spam campaign highlighted that DoS attacks are not covered by British law. ECD claims that people who take part in this DoS attack will not be breaking the law. Electronic civil disobedience is not illegal.
[January 25, 2005, 15:30]
UK failing to fight spam
News Steve Linford, director of Spamhaus, said: "If I was a spammer I'd love Britain. The UK's spam law was a waste of time and public money, it urgently needs to be scrapped and rewritten to properly ban spamming and make a ban enforceable," he added.
[August 12, 2005, 9:10]
Business Bloggers Leave Blogs Open To Hackers
Blog Most of us are also pretty used to sharing the love - YouTube videos, or photo albums shared between friends, for example - and this can lead to complacency that hackers exploit. The two main threats bloggers face are comment spam and SQL injection...
[November 10, 2008, 7:28]
Filtering spam with notes
News Don't you just love how Notes is as finicky as a bad-tempered cat? Even with Notes R5, filtering out spam is more trouble than it should be. All other mail clients take a rules-based approach to dealing with spam, but with Notes you have to...
[January 4, 2000, 6:05]
BT, Lycos, EU and Vorderman vie for villainy crown
News Lycos is in the frame for launching its 'Make Love Not Spam' screensaver, which directed Internet traffic at the Web sites of spammers in an attempt to disrupt them. Lycos claimed that the tool -- which was withdrawn after just a week after...
[December 23, 2004, 13:00]
