Lycos Anti-Spam Site Compromised [Updated]

Posted by timothy on Tuesday November 30, 2004 @08:01PM from the spy-vs-jerk dept.

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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Lad Vampire unaffected by Lost+Race · 2004-11-30 20:06 · Score: 5, Informative

Lad Vampire is still going strong. It's similar to the Lycos thing but only targets 419 scammers.
MD5 sum as of 11/26 by david_594 · 2004-11-30 20:24 · Score: 5, Informative

I downloaded the installer on 11/26 when the first /. article came out and the MD5 sum of that file was: 237ee99dc7f35d2e2c0a8640086167bf