screensaver
RSS screensaverGoogle Hacks: Build a Google Screensaver
White Paper And by scripting Google Images, one can create a screensaver based on images from across the Web. Each screensaver allows to specify a directory on the computer that contains images, and displays those images on the screen during the computer's... [10 Oct 2007]
MSDN Webcast: Visual C# 2005 Express Edition: Introducing the RSS Screensaver Starter Kit (Level 200)
White Paper The RSS Screensaver Starter Kit is a sample application that is available with Microsoft Visual C # 2005 Express Edition. This webcast provides a person with a guided tour of the RSS Screensaver starter kit, beginning with an explanation of how... [15 Jun 2007]
Get the New SaverBeans Screensaver Pack
White Paper The first is a new, early access Java screensaver Software Development Kit (SDK) called the SaverBeans Screensaver SDK that was recently developed and released on java.net. Using the tools in the SDK, one can produce screensavers for the Windows... [27 Sep 2006]
Leader: Has Lycos empowered the spammers?
Leader Even in the fleeting and transitory world of technology, Lycos' spam-busting screensaver was the most short-lived of initiatives. Nearly 100,000 people signed up for the screensaver, showing a huge support for extreme action against spammers - or... [07 Dec 2004]
Spammers targeted with DDoS attack
News Lycos is offering its customers a screensaver that helps to launch denial-of-service attacks on spammers' websites - a tactic more commonly associated with hackers or the spammers themselves who abuse networks of compromised machines to send large... [30 Nov 2004]
Lycos email scam hides nasty Trojan
News A malicious email purporting to offer a link to download Lycos' controversial spam busting screensaver is infecting users with a Trojan - proving that the fall out from the botched and now ditched service will continue to cause users pain. [08 Dec 2004]
Screensavers more secure than network passwords
News Activating a password-protected screensaver on users' desktops can provide more protection from unauthorised access than strong network login passwords, according to security firm TruSecure. Screen-locking - activating a password-protected... [03 Oct 2003]
Security Alert: Parrot is a Dirty Bird
White Paper Don't open this screensaver. Parrot is a .vbs worm disguised as a cute screensaver. If a user opens the screensaver, Parrot (W32.Crackly@MM, I-Worm.Parrot, W32.Parrot.A@mm) will then send copies of itself via Outlook or mIRC. [21 Jul 2003]
Microsoft: Kill screensavers, not the planet
News A Windows Vista PC running a screensaver consumes more energy than a PC in 'sleep' mode, according to a statement from Dean DeWhitt, the director of Microsoft's Windows Kernel team. In fact, the screensaver-running PC consumes the same amount of... [22 Mar 2007]
IBM and co tackle smallpox with grid computing
News The project will take the form of a screensaver people can put on their PCs, in an effort similar to SETI@home, which scours radio telescope signals for evidence of extraterrestrial life. Potential participants can download a screensaver at Grid.org. [05 Feb 2003]
Hackers take down Lycos anti-spam website
News 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' websites. The company said the screensaver uses the idle processing power... [01 Dec 2004]
Lycos kills off its anti-spam zombies
News We forcefully rebut a report by Netcraft referring to two spam servers having been disabled by our screensaver. At the point of time of the Netcraft measurement on December 1st, 2004, both spam servers were not on the target list of the screensaver. [07 Dec 2004]
Transatlantic Cable: Al Gore - the president of open source?
Comment For starters, we are conducting a Gore 2000 Linux screensaver design competition. Are the voters of Middle America going to be persuaded to vote Gore because of a screensaver that runs on an operating system (OS) they don't use? [19 May 1999]
Israeli teens charged over Goner virus
News The virus presented itself as a screensaver, but when opened it forwarded itself to all the recipients in the users' Microsoft Outlook address book. Five teenagers from Northern Israel have been charged with creating and distributing the Goner virus. [07 Aug 2002]
Apple spams users with virus
News Apple intended to send out a promotional screensaver yesterday via email to several hundred users and re-sellers, but the email file, entitled ScreenSaverSE.new.xls, turned out to contain the X97M.Laroux.gen macro virus. [07 Feb 2002]
