Spammers using FrontPage forms

C

carl.e.tusler

Spammers are harvesting the s-email-address in our FrontPage forms. Is
there a way to prevent this... encryption?
 
M

Mark Fitzpatrick

Not with the FrontPage form. Also, they may not be harvesting the email
address. Spam bots are now smart enough they can fill out a lot of common
contact or guest book forms on their own and transmit spam. Many of them
hope that their spam ends up on someones guestbook because it increases
their placement in the search engines.

You would need to go to a custom solution or a third-party product to do two
things:
1) hide the email address by keeping it within the script itself or some
configuration file that is unreachable by a spam bot.
2) add a verification field that forces the user filling out the form to
type in a series of letters and numbers displayed in a randomly generated
graphic. If what is entered doesn't match the random graphic, the form
doesn't get submitted.

Hope this helps,
Mark Fitzpatrick
Microsoft MVP- FrontPage
 

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