Spambot

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Spambot (composed of spam = 'unwanted electronic messages transmitted' and bot = 'largely autonomous computer program') stands for:

  • the computers of a botnet sending massive amounts of spam; see zombie (internet)
  • E-mail harvester , a computer program that searches the Internet for e-mail addresses in order to send spam to them
  • imprecise the spam filter , a computer program used to filter out spam
  • a computer program that leaves spam on internet forums or electronic guest books
  • a computer program that leaves its advertising message in as many server logs as possible with a conspicuous name as a browser identifier ; see server log spam


See also:

  • BOT (disambiguation)