Trick Spam Bot written by Gerald Bonne
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Why this program?
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In one word: SPAM. This program is released to the public in helping to fight against spam.

One of the ways spammers' mailing list get your e-mail address is simply from your web site. They use e-mail harvesting bots (sometimes also called internet spiders) and they collect as many e-mail addresses from webpages as they can. They just crawl the web based on links they find from search engines.

Say for instance you want a target audience that is related to gambling to send them for example a spam mail about an online casino. Just search on Google and Altavista (to name the most popular ones) on the word "gamble" and feed the link to your spider. It will start following every link and sublink etc... and it will search in each page the text "<a href="mailto:xxx@yyyyyy.zzz">". It will then extract the xxx@yyyyyy.zzz from it and store it in its mailing list. The "spam list people" just let their computer run for a few days like that and they have a database to put onto a CD and then the selling business starts. A few days later all the poor dudes that have a web site related to or containing the word "gamble" will start receiving casino spam.


Who is it for?
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This program is for those of you who write HTML webpages. Wherever you are a HTML code writer and you know how to edit your HTML code by hand you will be able to use this program.


What it does?
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It generates JavaScript code that needs to replace your "mailto" links. There are two code snippets.

It generates a first code to use a complex "escaped" string and stores it into a variable, you copy that code once in the <head> section of your page. Spiders should be unable to detect and recognize it.

It also generates the second code that uses that variable and displays the link wherever you copy it on your <body> section as often as you want a mailto link.


Installation
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There is just one executable file. Extract and copy it wherever you want and just double click it to start.
If you used to have the older version called StealthMail then make sure you update your links to the new filename tsb.exe and make sure you delete the old version.


I Renamed the project
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I changed the name StealthMail into TSB because I discovered that many spam tools to send anonymous mail called themselves StealthMail. To avoid confusion and to not link myself to these tools I changed the name of my program.


User guide
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Uh? It is so small and simple ... do you really need help with this?

If so then watch the status bar closely while moving your mouse over the various objects on the application window, this is all the help one could need. And ... eh, there are also tooltips :-)

Remember this tool is for those who edit HTML code directly. If you cannot use this program then you probably don't know how to edit HTML code either and you have no use for this tool.
