Spam Bots?

[adulthaze]

Hey...I was just wondering if there was a way to stop people from using bots to crawl my site, and extracting my email address from the html. I've been getting a steady flow of emails with viruses in them...It's not that big a deal, because I'm not about to try out the "Newest game" or look at "Snow white naked"; it's just irritating. Has anyone else had these problems?

-Rob

[SexySites]

why dont you remove your email address? .....or make it so that its something like this webmaster AT adulthaze.....then if people really want to contact you they will

or make a simple contact form using CGI

laters,
Chris

[code||die]

Everyone who posts his email address on his site does...

However, two ways to stop it:
1 - use a form to let visitors mail you
2 - post your email addres like "topxse at yahoo dot com"

[adulthaze]

thanks guys...that was prompt...I think i'll give that a whirl...No one's contacted me anyway...so oh well

[Will]

you can also use this if you are making a email link
person%40domain%2Ecom

[basik]

^ that would not work. if browsers read it as blah@blah.com, so will the email program (especially if spamming through CGI formmails).

i would suggest encypting that one section of your html.

[toker]

Theres another way actually you can use a click tracking script or redirection ect...

Anything that masks or hides the blah@blah.bleh would work. ;)

[michaelw]

modern spam bots are smart enough to change AT to @, DOT to . and remove all spaces..

to be sure, i recommend using a mail form or something to get people to email you

[wd-]

yup, mail form is the way to go...

[Trax]

i would go with oiqhef ÁT pwjrg dot com
that way the webmasters for example that can contact you know who to mail...

[Pinhead]

- Block the email harvesters in your .htaccess file
- Make your email addy a GIF picture,
or write it thru a JavaScript on the page.

[SexySites]

is it me or have people repeated what i said a number of times ? LOL

laters,
Chris