[76217] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Lycos pulls anti-spam screensaver from site
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Fergie (Paul Ferguson))
Fri Dec 3 11:05:03 2004
From: "Fergie (Paul Ferguson)" <fergdawg@netzero.net>
Date: Fri, 3 Dec 2004 16:03:45 GMT
To: ge@linuxbox.org
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
I was thinking the same thing.... Plus, "Stay Tuned"
doesn't mean that they necessarily pulled the screensaver
permanently....
- ferg
-- Gadi Evron <ge@linuxbox.org> 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
fergdawg@netzero.net or
fergdawg@sbcglobal.net
