a little program that automatically and systematically moves from website to website collecting email addresses and adding them to an ever-increasing list of places to spam
a piece of software, a program that someone has written
a program similar to the web-crawlers used by search engines to index the web
a program that visits a website, collects as many email addresses as it can from the site, and (generally) moves on to another site, where it will collect more email addresses
a tool that starts with a Web search, scrapes all the e-mail addresses from the first page it finds, and then follows links to related sites, collecting more addresses as it goes
A robot that collects email addresses for the purpose of sending spam.
A computer program that is designed to visit or "crawl" random websites and newsgroups, while collecting or "harvesting" everything that looks like valid email addresses for inclusion on spam lists.
A program that spammers use to harvest email addresses from the internet.
A robot that specializes in gathering e-mail addresses for a spammer to use. Spambots follow links and save any e-mail addresses found on the web, usenet or other sources.
A program used by spammers to automatically collect e-mail addresses from Web sites and add them to their database. These programs are the reason why we discourage you from placing your e-mail address on a public Web site.
A spambot is a robot that specializes in gathering email addresses for a spammer to use. It basically follows links and saves any email addresses it finds as it goes along. A spambot usually gathers emails from the web or from usenet, but may also gather it from other sources.
A spambot is a program designed to collect e-mail addresses from the Internet in order to build mailing lists for sending unsolicited e-mail, also known as spam. A spambot is a type of web crawler, that can gather e-mail addresses from Web sites, newsgroups, special-interest group (SIG) postings, and chat-room conversations. Because e-mail addresses have a distinctive format, spambots are easy to write.