Comments on: Lycos Europe denies attack on zombie army

Defacement of "Make love not spam" site was a hoax, not a hack, the Internet portal says.

It's not too hard to see what's really going on.

If you look closely at the routing for this "tool" you'll see what's really happening. They aren't hacked. They're blackholed. This is what was happening since Tuesday night. Many providers are putting blackholes in place. I predict this will be mostly ineffective and shutdown by weeks end.

The controllers are being blackholed which effectively shuts the clients off. They'll still function as screen savers, but they won't have a target list from Lycos.

[zaznet]

ISPs have a responsability to stop DDoS tools from being used on their net.

The ISPs are doing this beacuse their customers are using a screensaver they THINK is deisgned to "stop spam" when in fact it is a DDoS utility designed to absorb bandwidth from spammers AND the ISP of the user when the users computer is mostly not in use.

The ISP has the responsability to stop such tools from working. This is done to protect the ISP network and the customer from their own ignorance in the product they downloaded.

Now if such network blocking could be put in place in the other direction to prevent the spammers from gaining access to the major ISps we'd be all set. :)

[Ubber geek]

blackholes in place

http://www.analogstereo.com/vacuum/miele_dustbag.htm

It appears Lycos has it head up its &%$$

If you hit the site you can see the sites been hacked. On top of that is not Lycos/Excite the same and they have a nasty "extention" the affixes it self to your IE Browser and needs hacking the registry to remove it. So lets get the right......... help a spyware/malware profider hit a spammer.... Oh suuuuuure

[zaznet]

Lycos Europe is NOT owned by Excite

Lycos Europe is not Lycos and is not part of Excite. Lycos Europe was part of Lycos back in it's earlier days but was "spun off" into it's own company and apparently survived a better fate than it's parent Lycos.