Lycos's 'Make Love Not Spam' Under Attack

According to a Slashdot.org user:

"Lycos, shortly after producing a screen saver to fight spammers using a DoS-style attack appears to have been hacked. Attempting to download the screen saver from lycos results in this message 'Yes, attacking spammers is wrong, you know this, you shouldn't be doing it. Your ip address and request have been logged and will be reported to your ISP for further action.'"

Didn't see that one coming...

Lycos clearly put themselves in harms way when offering a screen saver designed to attack spam by literally attacking spammers. The program was designed to saturate websites who advertised with spam with unwanted bogus traffic. Spammers have an established track record of going after companies and organizations who try such tactics. This effort doesn't directly do anything to solve user's spam problems - like client-side spam busters can.

The only proven way for end-users to stop spam so far is with a spam email filter like SpamButcher. SpamButcher can be used to block spam in Outlook, Outlook Express or any other POP3 supporting email client.

Resource: Lycos's 'Make Love Not Spam' Under Attack