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Fighting Spam Spiders

Friday, January 2nd, 2009

Spam Spiders are spam softwares or “spambots” that crawl or serach the internet for email addresses to send unsolicited emails to. There are just too much trouble that these spam spiders bring to your inbox.
However, there is a site, WebPoison.org, which fights Internet “spambots” and “spam spiders”. It’s an open project that promises solution to these spamming. The sites gives the spambots bogus HTML web pages that also contain bogus email addresses.

What’s a Spam Spider and Spambot?

Thursday, November 20th, 2008

A spam spider is a email spider that collects as many email addresses as possible. The purpose of course is to spam you with email later.

In the same way, a ” spambot is a program designed to collect, or harvest, e-mail addresses from the Internet in order to build mailing lists for sending unsolicited e-mail, also known as spam“.This is how searchexchange.techtarget.com defines a spambot.

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