Lycos pulls anti-spam screensaver from site

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"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."

http://www.infoworld.com/article/04/12/03/HNlycospullsscreensaver_1.html

- ferg

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Fergie (Paul Ferguson) 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."

http://www.infoworld.com/article/04/12/03/HNlycospullsscreensaver_1.html

Okay. Now what about all those users who have this thing installed? Do they DDoS the same IP's for all eternity?

  Gadi.