SPAM bot and general security question...

Patrick fedora at puzzled.xs4all.nl
Tue Jan 17 19:23:30 UTC 2006


On Tue, 2006-01-17 at 09:11 -0700, Jon D. Slater wrote:
> If this question is off topic (or there’s a better place to ask it),
> please let me know… 
> 
> I’m running Apache 2.0.54 under FC4 2.6.14-1.1656. 
> 
> I *think* I’ve successfully java scripted all of my e-mail address
> links to prevent SPAM bots from harvesting them. 
> 
> Question 1:  How do I know?  (Is there some script or test I can run
> that will look for vulnerable e-mail addresses exposed on my web
> site?) 
> 
> Question 2:  If a .cgi script generates a web page on-the-fly (like
> many packages do), and if that generated page includes an e-mail link
> to support at blahblahblah.com, is that e-mail address also vulnerable?
> Or does it have to be in an “.html” file to be bot’ed?

There's a little php script called obfuscate. Works like a charm.
Found this: http://www.weberdev.com/get_example.php3/3939

Regards,
Patrick




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