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Lycos's Well-Intentioned Anti-Spam Effort Attacked Anew

It wasn't enough that Lycos Europe's starcrossed anti-spam campaign backfired, creating a network of zombie computers that pinged its own site to death, but now shady characters are continuing to distribute what they claim is Lycos's original spam server attacking "Make Love Not Spam" screensaver, but replaced with password and credit card number stealing trojan. The new malfeasance is an interesting third leg to the seemingly concerted effort the original alleged spammers took to counter Lycos's now-terminated attack. The other two efforts included redirecting denial of service attacks at Lycos and hacking Lycos's own site to include warnings to would-be downloaders that they may suffer consequences themselves.

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