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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Lycos pulls anti-spam screensaver from site
On Fri, 3 Dec 2004, Fergie (Paul Ferguson) wrote: > > > I was thinking the same thing.... Plus, "Stay Tuned" > doesn't mean that they necessarily pulled the screensaver > permanently.... they might re-introduce the screensaver, sure... or their add campaign might now be over :) As to 'what about the already downloaded clients?' if they can't get updates from the server they don't do anything... apparently they are already doing this since so many folks blocked access to the site. > > - ferg > > -- Gadi Evron <[email protected]> wrote: > > > "Lycos Europe appeared to have pulled a controversial > > anti-spam screensaver program from its site on Friday, > > after coming under fire from both security experts and > > the spammers themselves." > > > > Okay. Now what about all those users who have this thing installed? Do > they DDoS the same IP's for all eternity? > > Gadi. > > -- > "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson > Engineering Architecture for the Internet > [email protected] or > [email protected] >
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