> he's got that email address published on his website and it was > somehow harvested. There could be a chance that you got it from your > website's exposure too? If you want to test it, you could create a new email > address and secretly insert it in a really tiny font or same colour as the > background or as a junk string in your source, then leave it for a week to > see if it gets infected too?
This is happening too often;( Usually if you post something on the net, you leave your e-mail address, so people can contact you, comment on your post, etc. It is more common in these days to obfuscate your e-mail address. By "obfuscation" I mean writing it so that those harvesters wouldn't detect it as being an e-mail address. For example: attila at atn dot ro. If you need an e-mail link on your webpage you may want to encode it, putting in your html source something like: attila@atn.r f; any browser will make a correct interpretation of these codes, displaying [EMAIL PROTECTED] Most harvesters won't bother, they are just searching for the @. You may want to check out this free e-mail link obfuscator: http://www.zapyon.de/spam-me-not/index.html Attila
