Lycos Create Sceensaver to Help Kill Spammers

Download a Sceensaver to Help Kill Spammers
In one of the best thought moves to help eliminate Spam, Lycos, the european search engine has released a screensaver that endlessly requests data from sites that sell the goods and services mentioned in spam e-mail.

The net firm estimates that if enough people sign up and download the tool, spammers could end up paying to send out terabytes of data.

How was the term spam invented?

Father of Spam Speaks Out on His Legacy Back in 1978, when the thing we now all think of as annoying, unsolicited, inbox-clogging email was just the canned, spongy sandwich meat, one man sent an email to 400 people, marketing his company's new product.

With that one fateful move, email spam was born.

Gary Thuerk, now in sales at computer giant Hewlett-Packard Co., sent out that original spam back when the Internet was called Arpanet, and researchers and the military were the only ones using it. As a marketing manager at the East Coast-based Digital Equipment Corp. (DEC), Thuerk sent out the bulk email inviting West Coast techies to a demonstration of Dec's new Decsystem-20.

Ad Serving Firm Delivers Virus

Ad How to Piss readers off!Ad management firm Falk AG briefly became an agent of the Bofra virus on Saturday, delivering the Internet Explorer exploit to users whose browsers requested ads from its customers' sites. The incident occurred between 12:10 a.m. and 6:30 a.m. Eastern Standard Time.

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