NeonWizard Posted December 3, 2004 Report Share Posted December 3, 2004 Lycos Europe's "Make love not spam" campaign has killed access to some of the Web sites of its target alleged spammers, Netcraft has found. According to the Internet traffic monitoring company, Lycos Europe has successfully taken two Web sites hosted in China offline. The sites are bokwhdok.com and printmediaprofits.biz, according to a posting on Netcraft's Web site, dated this week."A distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack launched by users of Lycos Europe's MakeLoveNotSpam.com screensaver has succeeded in crippling several spammer sites, but some of the targeted sites remain available," the posting said.Lycos Europe was unavailable for comment on the matter, but the company said on Tuesday it was not carrying out DDoS attacks, just slowing the bandwidth of its targets. It added that it had no intention of taking Web sites offline.Read Article Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
expertec Posted December 3, 2004 Report Share Posted December 3, 2004 A campaign by Lycos Europe to target spam-related websites appears to have been put on hold.BBC Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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