What is a spambot?

A spambot is an automated program used for sending spam. Using this type of program, a spammer sends spam emails and automated posts to various forums or even various social networking sites.

Spambots are widely used by attackers to send spam to email accounts. They are even used to send spam comments to online forums and social networking sites.

What are email spambots?

Email spambots are widely used to send spam emails to various email accounts.

Firstly, attackers use automated web crawlers to collect email addresses of people from various websites, newsgroups, chat rooms, and forums. After collecting enough email addresses, they use automated scripts to send spam emails to those email accounts.

What are forum spambots?

Sometimes, malicious users apply illegitimate techniques to increase the search engine ranking of their websites. They make automated scripts and start posting to various forums, blogs, and wikis. Those automated posts are not meant for human reading. They contain hyperlinks to their websites, exploiting which they illegitimately increase the search engine rankings of those websites. These types of spambots are called forum spambots.

What are Twitter spambots?

Sometimes, malicious users use spambots to produce automated posts on social networking sites like Twitter. These spambots can automatically follow other users, post comments or even re-tweet, and all these are done for malicious purposes. These are called Twitter Spambots.

How to stop spambots?

We can take a couple of steps that can protect us from these spambots.