Lycos Europe Pulls Make Love Not Spam Screensaver Amid Backlash

Lycos Europe appeared to have pulled a controversial anti-spam screensaver program from its site on Friday, after coming under fire from both security experts and the spammers themselves.

The Web site previously distributed the "Make Love Not Spam" screensaver, which offers to turn the tables on spammers by overwhelming their Web sites with requests, no longer offers the program and now carries the message "Stay Tuned."

Lycos Europe also removed prominent advertisements for the screensaver from its home page.

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