Lycos Goes Straight

Lycos Goes Straight
Mark Rasch, 2004-12-06

After a week of well-deserved criticism, Lycos is abandoning its scheme to launch denial-of-service attacks against spammy websites. Did the company reform in time to avoid criminal prosecution?

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It's still the wrong approach 2004-12-08
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Lycos Goes Straight 2004-12-13
Concerned ISP

Not necessarily. While the Lycos action may force the spammers to go infecting unsuspecting hosts and using them to send out spam, it is merely a short term measure. In the long run, this action from spammers will cause the owners of compromised systems to wise up and install counter measures.

In effect it will be another step to make life harder for spammers.

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