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Microsoft: Let PCs nap

March 21, 2007 PCs allowed to go into sleep mode consume less energy than those running screensavers, study says. TAGS: energy, screensaver, Windows Platform, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., PC, Microsoft Windows

Microsoft offers prank Blue Screen Of Death

November 14, 2006 A spoof screensaver of the IT nightmare is now available from Microsoft. Antivirus vendors are not amused. TAGS: blue screen of death, Sysinternals, antivirus company, screensaver, Microsoft Corp., antivirus, Microsoft Windows NT, Microsoft Windows

Trojan poses as Lycos Europe screensaver

December 7, 2004 Attackers use "Make love not spam" campaign as lure for password-stealing program. TAGS: Lycos Inc., spam, screensaver, trojan horse, F-Secure Corp., password, e-mail, antivirus

Lycos Europe: 'Make love not spam'

November 30, 2004 Web portal launches screensaver designed to bombard Web sites that are promoted in unsolicited e-mail. TAGS: Lycos Inc., spam, Web portal, screensaver, e-mail company, portal, spammer, Yahoo! Inc., attempt, e-mail, virus

Week in pictures: PC art

July 29, 2006 Psychedelic screensavers and spam plants bloom on the desktop. TAGS: LEGO Co., art, margin, Redmond, screensaver, robot, photograph, PC

Lycos Europe's antispam tool no longer available

December 3, 2004 The firm says the screensaver, which targets spammers' Web sites, has just been too popular and promises it will be back. TAGS: Lycos Inc., anti-spam, screensaver

Antispam screensaver downs two sites in China

December 2, 2004 "Make love not spam" site has taken two sites offline, a Web traffic monitoring firm says. TAGS: Lycos Inc., distributed denial of service, bandwidth, Web portal, spammer, anti-spam, portal, spam, screensaver, China, denial of service

Antispam campaign bites the dust

December 6, 2004 Lycos Europe throws in the towel on its controversial attempt to enlist PCs to deluge spammers' sites. TAGS: Lycos Inc., anti-spam, spammer, Web portal, denial of service, distributed denial of service, spam, screensaver, campaign, F-Secure Corp., portal, law, PC

PCs dream of electric sheep

July 28, 2006 Screensaver project, at Boston graphics conference, taps users' spare processing power for art. TAGS: processing power, art, screensaver, Boston, design, conference, image, PC, video

Sprint: Forget audio ring tones, try video ringers

March 16, 2005 Among the artists whose music video clips are available for ringer duty: Crime Mob, Big & Rich and T.I. TAGS: Sprint Nextel, handset, multimedia, screensaver, video, cell phone

SETI@home flaw could let invaders in

April 7, 2003 The ET hunters warn of a vulnerability in a widely used screensaver that lets the SETI@home project use volunteers' PC processing power to search data. TAGS: flaw, researcher, attacker, client, vulnerability, project, screensaver, server, Linux, security, PC, Microsoft Windows

Searching for safety

December 11, 2006 Online searches for even for seemingly innocuous terms can be dangerous to your PC's health, according a new survey. TAGS: search result, survey, McAfee Inc., safety, Internet search, search engine, category, health, America Online Inc., screensaver, Yahoo! Inc., Google Inc., PC

Israeli teens charged over Goner worm

August 6, 2002 Police in Israel reportedly charge five teenagers with writing and disseminating the fast-spreading and virulent Goner virus, which hit thousands of PCs worldwide. TAGS: defendant, Israel, worm, ICQ, virus, screensaver, firewall, e-mail, PC

IBM debuts spam assailant tool

March 22, 2005 Rather than just filtering content, Big Blue's spam-fighting technology verifies sender identity and strikes back. TAGS: Lycos Inc., spam, IBM Corp., anti-spam, security technology, spammer, P2P, e-mail, screensaver, message

Lycos Europe denies attack on zombie army

December 1, 2004 Defacement of "Make love not spam" site was a hoax, not a hack, the Internet portal says. TAGS: Lycos Inc., spammer, Internet portal, bandwidth, distributed denial of service, denial of service, F-Secure Corp., spam, attack, screensaver, e-mail
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