Re: OT: Hijacking an ASP Contact Us Page

They do it with a bot, thinking it's a comment page or something that
they can post so others will see it. You can stop it using a CAPTCHA -
the whole "tell me the word in the pic" thing I'm sure you've seen. The
easiest way to do it on an ASP page though, would probably be the
CSS/JavaScript of hiding an input box and instructions to *not* fill it
in. A bot (who normally doesn't run CSS or JavaScript) will put some
garbage data in there, but humans won't.

--MB

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Discussion forum for developers using Windows Forms to build
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> and controls [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of
> Steve Abaffy
> Sent: Monday, November 26, 2007 7:06 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: [DOTNET-WINFORMS] OT: Hijacking an ASP Contact Us Page
> 
> Hello,
> 
>         I know this is off topic, but my ASP group hasn't been active
> for
> awhile, so not sure where else to ask this. I have an ASP page that is
> basically a contact us form. Fill out the info hit submit and then the
> form
> emails the appropriate person with the information. Spammers have
> somehow
> got a hold of the page and are filling it with all kinds of "good"
html
> for
> porn sites, and Viagra and the like. How do they do this and how does
> one
> stop this from happening???
> 
> Thanks
> Steve