Talk:Spambot

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This has led to the evolution of sophisticated spambots that can recover e-mail addresses from character strings that appear to be munged.

So, pray tell, is there any effective email munging method any more? Is there any point?

Contents 1 Forum spambots 2 Possible plagarism? 3 Spambot / Email harvester 4 Disposable email addresses 5 Darkmatter

[edit] Forum spambots

I'm suprised there's no info about spambots that stalk forums advertising various things against the rules, usually in their off-topic discussion sections or replying to random topics.--69.92.21.35 19:15, 21 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Possible plagarism?

I found pretty much the same content on the page - almost word for word. http://searchsecurity.techtarget.com/sDefinition/0,,sid14_gci896167,00.html

[edit] Spambot / Email harvester

Is it me or aren't the web-crawler versions more referred to as email harvesters? Breno 11:02, 19 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Disposable email addresses

Personally, I think that subscribing to a disposable email address service was a good choice for me. I have only one disposable address that I use for my friends (easily changed), and dozens of addresses that I use for forums, newsletters, product registrations, etc. Any spam showing up on one of these addresses could be shut-off, simply by deleting the disposable address from my address book.

[edit] Darkmatter

I removed the last addition to Spambot regarding the Botnet/Spambot "Darkmatter". There were no sources or references given. I also found the following to be ambigous:

he resides in gela ,even though there are not video or photos of him,most of the people think that he never went out of his room,because of extrem and intense spamming in forum like WI and TW commnly know as letamaio

Is the writter speaking of a bot or a person?

Entens (talk) 15:36, 8 February 2008 (UTC)