Testing Your Forms for Hijacking Vulnerability
By Will Bontrager2005-10-07
Now What?
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Now, you check your email.
If you received an email at the address you used for the testing, with the word "Ouch!" anywhere in it, your form is vulnerable.
If you did not receive such an email, your form might or might not be vulnerable, but probably isn't at this time.
The above may be a more thorough test than the current crop of spammers' robots are doing. The robots will get better and better, you can count on that.
If we can all plug any vulnerabilities we find, or replace vulnerable software, and keep ahead of the robots, we might be able to frustrate spammers who have been frustrating us all these years. And keep our good names with our hosting companies as a bonus.
The "Web Page Form Anti-Hijacking Considerations" article can guide you when repairing vulnerabilities of some software. The URL is http://willmaster.com/hijack1
If you do not wish to repair, the two software titles from http://willmaster.com/scripts mentioned above both have anti-hijacking code built in. The hijack-proof form subscription service at http://webform.flowto.info/ is also available for very little money and can provide refreshing peace of mind.
Tutorial Pages:
» Testing Your Forms for Hijacking Vulnerability
» Want To Skip Testing?
» Is a Spammer Spider On the Loose?
» Why Should I Test?
» Won't Spammers Use this Article To Find Vulnerable Forms?
» How Do I Test?
» Now What?
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