Lycos Anti-Spam Site Compromised [Updated]

An anonymous reader writes "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.' Or maybe it's just a joke -- can you ever tell?" Update: 12/01 15:07 GMT by T : According to Lycos, the defacement reports were actually just a hoax.

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Re:Simplest strategy

[Poltras]

Hummmm.... actually, I'm sure one way to counteract this is simply to attack by IP addr instead of DNS name.

One way to counter-counter-act would then be to change IP.... but you can hit back by compiling new screensavers that attack the new IP. Wait, maybe the screensaver downloads the IPs to attack from Lycos, that way DNS resolving wouldn't occur, and they cannot change their IP without being targetted again. Now, 2cents worth of code have put your 5,Interesting comment back to dusts. I hope you're not a team leader.

And "Well-done Lycos", is kind of retarded. Not because you had a single idea that's already used by spammers (targeting DNS names) doesn't mean that it's perfect. It's easy to counter, and I'm sure Lycos has some realy programmers who actually know what they are doing. I'm not sure what they did, but it must be around those lines. Those are most probably paid more than you.

PS to moderators (those who aren't his friend), this guy has more than 50% posts 0 or -1, either offtopic or troll. He's karma whoring, he admits it in his journal. Just for people to know.

Moderate this -1, unuseful and meaningless life.