Email Cloaker 1.0 review

Just like Google scrapes the web indexing everything, spambots are computers that search the net for email adresses so the evildoers can spam you.

License: Freeware OS: Mac OS X File size: 0K Developer: Lensco Widgets Price: $0.00 Updated: 22 Nov 2005

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Just like Google scrapes the web indexing everything, spambots are computers that search the net for email adresses so the evildoers can spam you. Pretty uncool, huh?

You can protect yourself against these malicious bots — for example, by encoding your email address every time you put it somewhere on your web site.

There are several encoding methods, and the Email Cloaker provides two.
Both HTML and Javascript encoding offer some protection, but the latter should make it even harder for spambots.

NOTE that these methods are NOT waterproof. In fact it’s not difficult to teach a spambot to decode the address again, but the Email Cloaker should protect you against a whole lot of them.

Also NOTE that once your address has been picked up by spambots and you’re getting heaps of spam, encoding your address will not reverse this process!

What's New:
new gui and several bugfixes.