Lycos on Tuesday kicked off its "make love not spam" campaign by offering users a screensaver that helps to launch distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks on spammers' Web sites. The company said the screensaver uses the idle processing power of a computer to slow down the response times from spammers' Web sites ? much in the same way spammers use compromised PCs to distribute unsolicited e-mail messages.
However, within hours of the makelovenotspam.com site being launched, the original front page was replaced with a simple 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."
Finnish anti-virus firm F-Secure, which advised users not to participate in Lycos?s campaign because of "possible legal problems", suspects the site has been hacked by a pro-spam group because "they definitely would have a motive to attack the site".
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