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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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Lycos Goes Straight 2004-12-09
Fredrik Hult
If Lycos would have continued the only effect of their efforts would be to push the spammers to use zombie hosts for more of the hosting than what is already done.

Compromised (Stolen) host resources are used to send spam and host spam sites dns and web content. Reverse proxy and dns load balanci...

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