A spambot is an automated computer program, or, more rarely, a script, designed to assist in the sending of spam.

E-mail spambots

E-mail spambots harvest e-mail addresses from the Internet in order to build mailing lists for sending unsolicited e-mail, also known as spam. Such spambots are web crawlers 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 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 spambots cannot. This has led to the evolution of more sophisticated spambots that are able to recover e-mail addresses from character strings that appear to be munged, or instead can render the text into a web browser and then scrape it for e-mail addresses. Alternative transparent techniques include displaying all or part of the e-mail address on a webpage as an image, a text logo shrunken to normal size using inline CSS, or as text with the order of characters jumbled and restoring the order using CSS, where users are then able to see the address.

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Sat Mar 27 18:37:33 2010

Serious opinions needed. please= SPAMBOT/TROLL?
Q. stop answering that question this idiot or spambot keeps posting.
Asked by John D - Tue Jul 21 17:21:51 2009 - - 2 Answers - 0 Comments

A. He's the latest incarnation of diamond pushups kid. Welcome to Y!A's martial arts section. Don't worry about it and skip over the questions that look like it. They usually follow a similar user name pattern as well.
Answered by Lycann - Tue Jul 21 17:26:52 2009

How can I prevent spam from coming on Instant Messenger?
Q. I am talking about all of them: MSN, Yahoo, etc. Lately, I been getting spammed by contacts. I know it is not them but probably some kind of spambot - it is very annoying. Any way around this? Thanks.
Asked by Enlightenme! - Sat Mar 14 15:35:24 2009 - - 3 Answers - 0 Comments

A. At least for Yahoo, I know of one thing: Yahoo has gone insane. Get this: the 'new' Yahoo by default, allows your Yahoo! contacts computers, to send to whatever 3rd party software they have on THEIR computer, information about you! Can you believe that!!? This is something you must end ASAP. Look in your mail account settings (ya, it's buried very conveniently) and uncheck this box! Go to your Yahoo! Mail: near the "Welcome (your name)", tick the 'Profile' link; next page, upper right corner, tick 'Settings'; next page, near the bottom is the box to uncheck. And the deterioration of trust with Yahoo! grows...it's pathetic. This is spying, pure and simple. "NOTICE: We collect personal information on this site. To learn more about how we… [cont.]
Answered by Dunbar Pappy - Sat Mar 14 18:17:34 2009

when your signing up at roliana.com it asking you if your a spambot?
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A. It should accept: No No. Nope I'm not sure if capitalization does anything, but you could also try those uncapitalized...I forget the others that it accepts, sorry. If those don't work, try exiting the page and filling out the form again. Your browser also might be a problem, my friend tried forever on FireFox, never worked, tried twice on IE and it went through. Try switching browsers?
Answered by The Littlest Froggy - Sun Apr 13 17:35:15 2008

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