The Bottom Line
SpamStopper provides an easy way to protect your email address from being collected by spammers.
SpamStopper is no longer available.
SpamStopper is no longer available.
Pros
- SpamStopper obfuscates mailto links reliably
- Easy to use
Cons
- Spammers may adapt to SpamStopper's encoding
- Doesn't support default Cc: header, message body
Description
- SpamStopper obfuscates email addresses in mailto: links.
- Serves as protection from spammers' address harvesting robots.
- SpamStopper uses either hex encoding or JavaScript.
- SpamStopper can encode an optional default Subject line in the mailto: code.
- SpamStopper supports Mac OS X 10.1+.
Guide Review - SpamStopper 1.6.0 - Email Address Obfuscation Tool
Spammers are known to get their email addresses by using small programs that scan Web pages for strings with an '@' in the middle.
As soon as your address appears on a Web site, spammers will grab it and start sending their junk. Since an email address is vital contact info, omitting it is no option. Obfuscating it could be one.
SpamStopper uses either hexadecimal encoding or JavaScript to "encrypt" email addresses so that spammer's spiders no longer will recognize them. This works fairly well. Until, of course, spammers start using programs that look for the encoded versions as well...
