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Lycos Strikes Back At Spammers With DoS Screensaver

2004-11-30 07:10:00

Lycos Europe took the fight to the enemy Monday, by launching a screensaver that conducts a group denial-of-service (DoS) attack against sites selling products marketed via spam.

Dubbed "Make Love Not Spam," the screensaver requests pages from servers "verified to be spam advertising sites," said Lycos. When a large number of the screensavers send requests at the same time, the spam site bogs down.

Lycos said that the screensaver was designed so that it would never completely collapse a sit --tricky legal issues there--and was also meant to chew up bandwidth and drive up spammers' costs.

Lycos claimed that it had decreased the response time of some of the targeted sites by as much as 85 percent.

The screensaver can be downloaded from the Lycos Europe Web site.

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AOL Upgrades Telephone Service For Deaf Users
AOL has partnered with MCI to expand its AIM Relay service to include users with ordinary telephone numbers. The service enables deaf and hard of hearing users to have telephone conversations using AOL Instant Messaging as a message text transmission environment.
Firefox Keeps Slicing Into IE's Share
Firefox's share of the U.S. browser market grew by more than a third in the last month, a Web metrics firm said Monday. According to data from San Diego, Calif.-based WebSideStory, Firefox -- the Mozilla Foundation's upstart stand-alone browser -- saw its usage share jump from 3.03 percent in early November to 4.06 by early December.
IBM Buying Procurement Service Provider
IBM said Monday it would acquire KeyMRO, a provider of Internet-based procurement services headquartered in France. Financial terms of the deal weren't disclosed.
Microsoft Launches Desktop Search
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FrontBridge Forecasts Big Spam Season
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International Airlines Embrace In-Flight Internet
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Google Undertakes Huge Library-Search Project
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