Using tweb sites's resources  to help combat the ever-increasing spam problem.

Recently new functionality has been added to Project Honey Pot:

• A system to monitor and catch "comment spammers"; i.e.those who leave links on forums and blogs with the intent to incease certain (advertising) web sites' rating on search engines.

• A system to block known malicious robots and harvesters from accessing the web sites of active membres of the Honey Pot Project.

• A monitoring system to check that the IP addresses that belong to the members are not used for malicious behaviour.

Project Honey Pot is set up to use web sites all over the world as a tool to identify and ultimately stop spammers. By inserting a special link on any web page, harvesters of email addresses and other robots with potentially malicious intent will be identified and reported to Project Honey Pot. Although the honeypot system was originally set up to be used for those who had their own web server, a new feature has recently been available. The so-called "QuickLinks" enable using the honeypot technology on any web pages that any user can edit (e.g. your own personal blog).
How does it function?

The technique used by the Project Honey Pot is that a special link with an email address is inserted in the web page. When this address is harvested and starts receiving (spam) emails, the honeypot can see whene it was harvested as well as the IP address used for harvesting. This then forms the basis for building lists of spammers and reporting to relevant legal authorities and hopefully prosecution of the spammers.

New additions to the project

From Project Honey Pot's web site lots of interesting information is available; e.g. which countries that are most involved in spamming, known IP addresses used etc. etc.


More information

More information about Project Honey Pot and how to sign up for using this technique to combat spammers, is available on the project's web site