How do spammers get my .asp email?

Discussion in 'privacy problems' started by tonyseeking, Nov 25, 2008.

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  1. tonyseeking

    tonyseeking Former Poster

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    How do spammers get my email address that is in .asp and only written on my server hardrive and not seen in the pages code?
     
  2. kC_

    kC_ Registered Member

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    maybe its just been used/sold by some company that have your email address for marketing purposes
     
  3. tonyseeking

    tonyseeking Former Poster

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    Everytime I change the email address, I immediately get spammed again.
     
  4. tesk

    tesk Registered Member

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    It is funny. I have 5 emails adresses.

    1 for spam - and various free offers - I recieve 3000 spam-mails pr month.
    The 4 other is personal and I use them all. But they are not receiving spam.

    One of my emailadresses are even posted on public forums and you can search on google for it. That is funny that someone is getting spammed all the time and others are not receiving anything. :)
     
  5. tonyseeking

    tonyseeking Former Poster

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    What is the solution?
     
  6. tonyseeking

    tonyseeking Former Poster

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    What's funny about it? :doubt:
     
  7. mizar

    mizar Registered Member

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    You should protect your form from automatic submissions via a Captcha, e.g. http://recaptcha.net/whyrecaptcha.html

    And also sanitize/validate the user input otherwise spammers may use your form to insert their own email message and send it to many other addresses via your script.
     
  8. vijayind

    vijayind Registered Member

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    If you got it in code and they still manage to find it, it probably means that they somehow are able to peer into your server-side code.

    I suggest running some web vulnerability scanner to check for common loopholes, which may have been used to compromise your code.

    In the past I have used, Acunetix when I was still active in coding. But now there are many more choices:
    http://sectools.org/web-scanners.html
     
  9. JRViejo

    JRViejo Super Moderator

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    If that .asp page is called to action by a form on an HTML page, anyone can find the name of the page (usually at the start of the form coding) via Source view and using a Web editor, can download it and see the embedded email address.

    If the .asp page has no connection whatsoever to an existing HTML page, residing alone inside the server, then the server has been compromised. Change the server's User ID and password immediately.
     
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