[76214] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Lycos pulls anti-spam screensaver from site
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Gadi Evron)
Fri Dec 3 10:48:54 2004
Date: Fri, 03 Dec 2004 17:52:33 +0200
From: Gadi Evron <ge@linuxbox.org>
To: "Fergie (Paul Ferguson)" <fergdawg@netzero.net>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <20041203.073818.22214.43051@webmail06.lax.untd.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
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.
