The Honey pot project

Stop spammers email harvest

Ever wondered where spammers got your email address from? Searchengines are continually scanning the internet, looking for original content. But that's obvious enough, and you can block their visits if you want to be invisible. However, other people are scanning the net as well, spidering site after site to harvest the email addresses people posted. They don't announce their visit, don't ask for permission and don't take no for an answer...

Spam mails can be stopped once they are sent, but no spam-filter gets them all. It would be more efficient, if they weren't sent at all. If spam spiders become visible, they can also be stopped. To stop them they need to be tracked and analyzed:

QuickLinks all who wants to participate in Project Honey Pot

Project Honey Pot has been tracking spammers and email harvesters for more than two years. Tens of thousands of volunteers from more than 100 countries have participated in order to help clean up the Internet. Unfortunately, a significant percentage of people who have wanted to help have been unable to because they do not run their own web server. That problem ends today.

To track harvesters and other malicious web robots before today required that volunteers have the ability to install our honey pot software on their web servers. Volunteers who ran blogs through services like Typepad, Blogger, or Live Journal could not help even though their sites were prime targets for the bad guys.

Today we are launching QuickLinks. This new program means that anyone who has the ability to post a link online can now help us track harvesters and other malicious web robots. After signing up for a new account, or logging in to your existing account, you will be provided a link. Hide this link on your web pages and we'll track anyone who follows it.

We have found that the more in-bound links a honey pot has, the more malicious robots it traps. The QuickLinks program is a way to allow more people to participate in Project Honey Pot while increasing the number of in-bound links to existing honey pot pages.

Read more about the project: www.projecthoneypot.org...