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]
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]
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]
What do Carol Vorderman and David Blunkett have in common?
News Lycos is in the frame for launching its 'Make Love Not Spam' screensaver, which directed Internet traffic at the Web sites of spammers in an attempt to disrupt them. BT, the European Union, Lycos, Carol Vorderman and the International Federation of... [23 Dec 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]
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]
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]
Lycos knocks spammers off the web
News Netcraft's website said: "A distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack launched by users of Lycos Europe's MakeLoveNotSpam.com screensaver has succeeded in crippling several spammer sites, but some of the targeted sites remain available. [02 Dec 2004]
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]
Will's Web Watch: How to attack spammers in your sleep
Comment The method of launch and propagation will require users to download a grid computing model screensaver from Lycos. Similar to the SETI screensaver which powers the search for extraterrestrial intelligence, it will combine the processing power of... [30 Nov 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]
Hunt for alien life struck by denial-of-service
News Seti requires computer users to download a screensaver-type program that automatically downloads, analyses and returns 'units' of data collected from the Arecibo radio telescope in Puerto Rico. The University of California's distributed-computing... [30 Jul 2004]
'Retard' Hoffman mobile ad is offensive, says watchdog
News That's just what mobile logo and screensaver seller, Xmob, did in some adverts placed in footie fanzine FourFourTwo and, unsurprisingly, both the National Autistic Society and the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) slammed the ads. [25 Mar 2004]
Virus alerts: Malware in waiting for post-xmas chaos
News Here's a nice Christmas screensaver instead :)," and the message carries an attachment called xmas.scr. Antivirus experts are warning of a destructive, Christmas-themed email worm and another virus which spreads via MSN Messenger, the popular... [02 Jan 2004]
