ZDNet UK reports that the Lycos Europe 'Make Love Not Spam' distributed computing screensaver effort may have proved a victim of its own rather aggressive tactics. It seems one of the alleged spammers targeted by the denial of service application redirected its homepage to Lycos's own 'Make Love Not Spam' site, diverting Lycos's own zombie army of web traffic generators to attack itself. An executive at F-Secure said, ''I think Lycos is not going to keep this up for long... it's not the grown-up way."

Lycos's Anti-Spam Screensaver Diverted to Attack Lycos Posted by: DTB at 9:22 AM  |  Permalink