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Re: Lycos pulls anti-spam screensaver from site

  • From: Steven Susbauer
  • Date: Fri Dec 03 15:50:12 2004
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At the moment the screensaver does nothing. It blanks to grey and displays the message "Stay Tuned".... that's really about it. (Of course it still connects to the "Makelovenotspam.com" site, but that isn't really the point).

It wouldn't surprise me if the screensaver, or a modified version, went back into use at a future date.


Christopher L. Morrow wrote:
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.