juliano

In order for spammers to send email to millions of people, they need millions of email addresses. One way to get these addresses is to automatically search the web, harvesting email addresses from unsuspecting web-sites. EmailShroud helps to protect email addresses that are published on a WordPress Blog.
Note: EmailShroud is not like most of the anti-spam plugins for WordPress. EmailShroud does not protect the blog against Comment Spam. EmailShroud helps to protect the owner, authors and other people mentioned on a blog from receiving email spam.
EmailShroud does more than just use ?escape codes?, which is a poor-man?s solution to this problem.
It uses JavaScript to ?obfuscate? the email address. Spammers don?t run JavaScript during their harvesting, as it would take too much effort and is unlikely to help produce many more email addresses. Almost all browsers used to actually read blogs do run JavaScript ? the browser transparently decodes the email address without the reader even noticing.
EmailShroud gracefully handles browsers that are not running JavaScript.

EmailShroud

In order for spammers to send email to millions of people, they need millions of email addresses. One way to get these addresses is to automatically s …

Jeffrey Zinn

Brandon Dove

nateconley

Jackals build automated bots and spiders to crawl through the world wide web looking for vulnerable email addresses to add to their spam lists. Generally, the victims are unprotected “mailto” links. MailTo links are incredibly useful and often necessary to our sites. So how do you protect them from being harvested and siphons by ne’er-do-wells?
Commonly the bots and spiders are looking for the two tell-tale signs of an email address – the “@” and the following “.” The solution lies in finding ways to mask an email addresses from harvesters, siphons and phishers, while retaining the intended functionality of the “mailto” link. There are options like using HTML entities or using javascript, and this plugin will take care of that for you.

SpamShiv Lite

Jackals build automated bots and spiders to crawl through the world wide web looking for vulnerable email addresses to add to their spam lists.

EmailShroud vs SpamShiv Lite