Description
Jackals build automated bots and spiders to crawl through the world wide web looking for vulnerable email addresses to add to their spam lists. Generally, the victims are unprotected mailto links. MailTo links are incredibly useful and often necessary to our sites. So how do you protect them from being harvested and siphons by neer-do-wells?
Commonly the bots and spiders are looking for the two tell-tale signs of an email address the @ and the following . The solution lies in finding ways to mask an email addresses from harvesters, siphons and phishers, while retaining the intended functionality of the mailto link. There are options like using HTML entities or using javascript, and this plugin will take care of that for you.
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Installation
- Upload
pj-spamshiv.phpto your/wp-content/plugins/directory. - Activate the plugin through the Plugins menu in WordPress.
- Thats it! Your website is now spam free.
FAQ
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The techniques utilized in this plugin are not totally foolproof. Spammers are evil, wily people who are constantly evolving their devious methods and may one day circumvent methods we use.
