Lycos Pulls Vigilante Anti-spam Campaign

davidwr writes "Eweek reports that Lycos is scrapping it's anti-spam campaign: 'On Friday, Lycos Europe gave up the ghost, posting a 'Stay Tuned' note on the MakeLoveNotSpam.com Web site it was using to distribute the screensaver. The Lycos Europe home page, which heavily promoted the screensaver all week, was also scrubbed clean of any references to the screensaver.' See previous Slashdot coverage from Nov. 26, Dec. 1, and Dec. 2."

Comments

Re:Existing installations?

[grazzy]

Nope, it says "Stay tuned" there too.

Anti spam from a spyware vendor?

[Shaper of Myths]

I stopped trusting Lycos the day I started finding this bloody thing on my customers computers. That they tried and failed at something so shady in the first place doesn't seem like much of a surprise to me. This was just some poorly done publicity stunt, probably dreamed up in by some PHB deep in the dungeons of their marketing department.

Re:Personally a bit of a shame

[nchip]

You are drawing conclusions. f-secure didn't say that the meta tag was FOLLOWED by lycos client, merely that spammers added a meta refresh tag. In fact, it was debunked it on their weblog:

Update on 4th of December, 2004: Lycos has confirmed to us that their screensaver does not follow Meta Refresh tags, so this attempt by spammers will fail. --Mikko