Contents
- Introduction
- How It Works
- Features
- System requirements
- Demo
- Download
- Support
Introduction
There is no need to explain what is spam and how annoying it can be. If you
left your real e-mail address on a public forum, blog or newsgroup you will
became a victim of SPAM. Sooner or later e-mail harvesting robots crawling the
internet will find your email address and add it to their database.
After that you will receive dozens
of messages about sex, porno, drugs, Viagra, various pills, medications and other
unwanted stuff.
The same story is with the contact e-mail addresses written on your website.
Webmasters and administrators are suffer from a great amount of SPAM e-mail
messages.
Anti-spam filters do not solve the problem completely because spammers are
very inventive in finding ways to trick the filtering software. So the most
effective method is to hide your e-mail address from e-mail harvesting robots.
The most widely spread method to do it is to transform e-mail address so
only human can read it.
For example, instead of writing real e-mail address brandon@domain.com write
slightly encrypted one - brandon[at]domain.com or brandon{nospam}@domain.com.
Another approach is to represent e-mail address not as a text but as an image.
All these methods have one significant disadvantage -
it is not possible to just copy and paste e-mail address or send a mail by
clicking it. User needs to edit E-mail address to make it usable.
Voynex has developed an anti-spam solution allowing to protect e-mail addresses
and make this protection transparent for the website visitor.
How it works
Voynex Email Guard script is designed to protect e-mail addresses
on the website from the e-mail harvesting software and to make this protection
transparent (invisible) for the website visitor. User still can click, copy
and paste e-mail address and does not see that e-mail address is actually encrypted.
As were said above to hide e-mail address it has to be unreadable for the
robots. For example mailto:brandon@domain.com can be encrypted like this:
mail_to_brandon_at_domain.com. Voynex Email Protect will make this address
readable again but for the website visitor, not for the e-mail harvester.
Features
Our e-mail protection software is a small JavaScript run by the
web browser on the client computer. The script transforms e-mail
addresses written in a special way to their normal form.
The key advantages of the script are:
- Very simple installation and use
- Transparent for the website visitor
- Search and replace tokens are configurable
System Requirements
Voynex Email Guard works with Internet Explorer, Mozilla FireFox, Opera,
Netscape, Safari web browsers
Demo
This is e-mail address how it is seen by the e-mail scraper or e-mail
harvester software:
<a href="mail_to_brandon_at_voynex.com">brandon_at_voynex.com</a>
And this is the same e-mail address how it is seen by users:
brandon_at_voynex.com
The script transforms encrypted e-mail address to its normal form.
Download
Download Voynex Email Guard
anti-spam script version 1.1 (zip archive, 2KB)
Script is available at no cost and delivered as OpenSource software. Free for non-commercial use.
Support
Free support is available for this product. Please
contact our support department if you have any
questions or suggestions.
If you have no time to install and configure Voynex Email Guard, we can do it for you for a small fee.
The cost of the installation depends on the request and usually is within $5-$10.