Spambot
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)