Definitions for "SpamBot "
A spider that surfs the Internet looking for publicly disclosed email addresses. These email addresses are then added to a database and you begin getting junk mail, also known as spam.
a computer program designed to scoop up e-mail addresses and bombard them with unsolicited advertisements
a computer program that searches the webpages for email addresses
The purpose of SpamBot is to make it easy to repeatedly send a string or similar strings to a given Internet daemon. SpamBot was designed with efficiency in mind. An effort has been made to keep memory usage and CPU-load as low as possible, while still sending requests very fast. SpamBot can deliver requests through multiple connections using only one thread and asynchronous I/O.
A bot that sends unwanted, unrequested, and usually repetitive e-mail or messages directly to a user or to a message forum. In most cases, this unwanted information is commercial advertisements, although the message can be propaganda supporting a cause or nonsense messages designed to fill up a user's mailbox.
noun. A spambot is online code which automatically generates larg numbers of unwanted messages and directs them at members of the public. Within the context of blogging, it is code which enters unsolicited comment spam. A spambot can enter dozens or even hundreds of unwanted spams in a matter of minutes into the comments of an unprotected blog