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Whats up with all these bots? Why CJ? I dont understand it lol, how can they register..
That's why my brother's computer doesn't need anti-virus software; 450MHz P3 doesn't meet virus's system requirements.
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Spambot
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A spambot is a program designed to collect e-mail addresses from the Internet in order to build mailing lists for sending unsolicited e-mail, also known as spam. A spambot is a type of web crawler, that can gather e-mail addresses from Web sites, newsgroups, special-interest group (SIG) postings, and chat-room conversations. Because e-mail addresses have a distinctive format, spambots are easy to write.
A number of legislators in the U.S. are reported to be devising laws that would outlaw the spambot. A number of programs and approaches have been devised to foil spambots. One such technique is known as address munging, in which an e-mail address is deliberately modified so that a human reader (and/or human-controlled Web browser) can decode it but a spambot cannot. This has led to the evolution of sophisticated spambots that can recover e-mail addresses from character strings that appear to be munged.
The term spambot is sometimes used in reference to a program designed to prevent spam from reaching the subscribers of an Internet service provider (ISP). Such programs are more often called e-mail blockers or filters. Occasionally, such a blocker may inadvertently prevent a legitimate e-mail message from reaching a subscriber. This can be prevented by allowing each subscriber to generate a whitelist, or a list of specific e-mail addresses the blocker should let pass.
Another type of spambot surfs the web, looking for forms to submit, and it submits spam e-mails to these web forms, often with OCR technology to bypass any CAPTCHAs.
There are also spambots used to post spam links to guestbooks, wikis, blogs, forums and any other web forms to boost search engine ranking.
Please visit the site www.codjumper.com for more information thanks!
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A spambot is a program designed to collect e-mail addresses from the Internet in order to build mailing lists for sending unsolicited e-mail, also known as spam. A spambot is a type of web crawler, that can gather e-mail addresses from Web sites, newsgroups, special-interest group (SIG) postings, and chat-room conversations. Because e-mail addresses have a distinctive format, spambots are easy to write.
A number of legislators in the U.S. are reported to be devising laws that would outlaw the spambot. A number of programs and approaches have been devised to foil spambots. One such technique is known as address munging, in which an e-mail address is deliberately modified so that a human reader (and/or human-controlled Web browser) can decode it but a spambot cannot. This has led to the evolution of sophisticated spambots that can recover e-mail addresses from character strings that appear to be munged.
The term spambot is sometimes used in reference to a program designed to prevent spam from reaching the subscribers of an Internet service provider (ISP). Such programs are more often called e-mail blockers or filters. Occasionally, such a blocker may inadvertently prevent a legitimate e-mail message from reaching a subscriber. This can be prevented by allowing each subscriber to generate a whitelist, or a list of specific e-mail addresses the blocker should let pass.
Another type of spambot surfs the web, looking for forms to submit, and it submits spam e-mails to these web forms, often with OCR technology to bypass any CAPTCHAs.
There are also spambots used to post spam links to guestbooks, wikis, blogs, forums and any other web forms to boost search engine ranking.
Please visit the site www.codjumper.com for more information thanks!
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the issue is related to the forum version. Every forum made by the same group (i.e Yabb, phpbb), these forums follow a very basic form for signing up, if the spam bot (defined by Koekie) simply fills in a sign up form for EVERY page that it can, it then automatically posts a message in a random section.KillerSam wrote:At the moment it seems that a huge amount of forums have these troubles.
These bots can be stopped using "Human Verification Systems" such as a number/code during the sign up process, because bots are programmed to only fill in the common basic forms, the registration fails as the bot cannot fill in the Human Verification.
Spam is going to hit a all time high this December, expect more bots until the problem is sorted.

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untill pedsdude wakes up you mean LOL.Drofder2004 wrote:KillerSam wrote:At the moment it seems that a huge amount of forums have these troubles.
Spam is going to hit a all time high this December, expect more bots until the problem is sorted.
That's why my brother's computer doesn't need anti-virus software; 450MHz P3 doesn't meet virus's system requirements.
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Peds is in hibernation, he wont wake until end of winter...teebag wrote:untill pedsdude wakes up you mean LOL.Drofder2004 wrote:KillerSam wrote:At the moment it seems that a huge amount of forums have these troubles.
Spam is going to hit a all time high this December, expect more bots until the problem is sorted.

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woah drofder, sweet new avatar!
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Danke, been playing with PS for last hour doing random things, its made using clouds, swirls and some other filterNightmare wrote:woah drofder, sweet new avatar!


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He's right, I'm pretty much out of action...Drofder2004 wrote:Peds is in hibernation, he wont wake until end of winter...teebag wrote:untill pedsdude wakes up you mean LOL.Drofder2004 wrote:
Spam is going to hit a all time high this December, expect more bots until the problem is sorted.
will sort it out soon



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