Wadding up Spambots With Spiderkiller

Wadding up Spambots With Spiderkiller

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Spiderkiller is a C program that will generate unique pages with random email addresses that will confuse harvesting bots. We put up a copy of the source code here that has the correct URL for the original software, otherwise your page will have a bad URL to the Author's previous site. Compile the app:

srv-5:~ usr4$ gcc spiderkiller.c -o spiderkiller
spiderkiller.c: In function 'main':
spiderkiller.c:299: warning: incompatible implicit 
declaration of built-in function 'strlen'

The options are simple:

srv-5:~ usr4$ ./spiderkiller -help
Usage: spiderkiller [-help] [-n ] [-k ] [-r ] [-x]
-help: print this message
-n: set maximal number of addresses created
-k: set maximal size in kilobyte of the created code
-r: set the random seed (an integer). Default is the current time.
-x: print no html, just a list of addresses
The purpose of this program is to create lists of bogus email
addresses to clobber automated address collection tools, of the
kind that spammers use. Feel free to put these on your web pages;
the more, the merrier. (C) 1998 Peter Selinger. This is free
software under the GNU General Public License.
srv-5:~ usr4$

Let's generate a 1000 address web page:

srv-5:~ usr4$ ./spiderkiller -n 1000 > index.html
srv-5:~ usr4$

Just to be polite, put this file in a directory disallowed in robots.txt:

srv-8:~ usr4$ tail -n1 robots.txt
Disallow: /harvestme/
srv-8:~ usr4$

Bad bots dis robots.txt.

Check out the results here.

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