Email Address Obscurifier Copyright (C) Moose O'Malley, --------------------------- July 2013. +===========================================================+ | T A B L E O F C O N T E N T S | +===========================================================+ | * Introduction | * Installing and Using this Program : | * Uninstalling this Program : | * The Future | * Reviews / Awards / CDs | * Freeware Information | * Warranty | * Amendment History | * Contacting the Program's Author +===========================================================+ Introduction : -------------- Email Address Obscurifier is for Windows 95, 98, ME, NT, 2000, XP, etc. This program is free software. Anyone - any person, any company, or any business - can use this program for free. No fees or payment is required. See "Freeware Information" below. This program is especially designed for use by anyone who maintains or develops WEB pages, and who wants to ensure that email addresses (on the web page) cannot easily be harvested by the type of people who send junk email. SPAM (i.e unsolicited junk email) is a rotten scurge that is annoying millions of internet users and causing all sorts of havoc due to clogged mail boxes and clogged servers, not to mention the nasty payloads (viruses, trojans, etc) that many spam emails contain. This program can help you to obscure the email addresses on your web page(s) so that they act the same and function the same as before, but so that they cannot easily be accessed / identified by email harvesting programs used by people who send unsolicited junk email (SPAM) to 1,000's of internet users. The result of this should be a reduction in the amount of SPAM (i.e. junk email) that you receive. See "Using this Program" below for further information. If this program is of interest to you, then check out another of my FREE programs called "Spam Analysis Tool". Developed using 32-bit Delphi. Email Address Obscurifier is for Windows 95, 98, ME, NT, 2000, XP, etc. This program will **NOT** run under Windows 3.x (even with Win32 installed) !! Using this Program : -------------------- To use this program, simply unzip it to a directory (using PKUNIP, WinZIP, or similar), run it, and drag and drop spam email files and then click on the buttons to perform the various activities that you require. If you want the program to run automatically when Windows starts up, then select this option under the "File" menu in the program. If you would like to be able to run this program by clicking on an icon in the Windows Start Menu, or on the Desktop, etc then you can use the "Create Shortcut ..." options under the program's File menu. If you want this program to be "Always On Top" of other Windows, then select the "Always On Top" menu option under the "File" menu. Email Address Obscurifier enables you to enter the following data : - Email Address. e.g. moose AT move.to (@ replaced with AT) - "Mailto:" HTML Tag. The default value for is "mailto:", and most users should be able to stick with this default value. - Email Subject Line. i.e. the default email subject line that you want to generate when the email link is selected on the web page, - "Email me" Label. This field determines how you want the email link to appear on a web page. When you press the "Obscurify" button, then valid (but obscured) HTML is generated for the following output fields : - Obscurified Output Fields - Complete Email HTML In addition, a "Mini-Pseudo WEB Browser" area shows you what the obscurified Complete Email HTML will look like and act like on the web page. You can even click on this link and an email will be created (but NOT sent) with the defaults you specified above. e.g. To the desired email address, with the required subject line, etc. You can then manually replace the email links on all of your web pages with the obscurified Complete Email HTML, and this will offer increased protection from SPAM. For example, a simple WEB page may consist of the following Hyper-Text Markup Language (HTML) : For further details about my shareware, please For further details about my shareware, please Email moose@mov e.to for a full catalog. As you can see, the email address is now no longer easy to locate. To people visiting the web page, the web page will look and act exactly as before. However, it will now be much more difficult for email harvesting programs to identify and extract email addresses from this web page. Uninstalling this Program : --------------------------- At the present time, there is No Uninstall function. If you ever want to delete this program from your computer, then : 1. Exit the program, and delete it from wherever you installed it on your harddrive. Simple as that ! Before deleting the program, you should turn off the auto-running of this program under Windows - if you have previously enabled it. Simply, re-select the option under the File Menu in the program to achieve this. The Future : ------------ In the future, many improvements could be made to this program, such as : - More advanced obscuring options - via JAVA Script code, etc. - Anything else ? If you would like any of these improvements, or would like to suggest more, please email me and let me know. How much more work I do on this program depends entirely on what support I get, how many people use the program, what feedback I get, etc. Reviews / Awards / CDs : ------------------------ None so far. Special Greetings / Thanks to : ------------------------------- None so far. Freeware Information : ----------------------- This is free software. Anyone - any person, any company, or any business - can use this program for free. No fees or payment is required. However, if you find the program useful, then please consider making a PayPal donation to support my efforts. (To make a donation, please run the program and select the "About" option under the Help menu, and then click the PayPal link on the "About" screen). Warranty : ---------- This software and the accompanying files are provided "as is" and without warranties as to performance or merchantability or any other warranties whether expressed or implied. The user assumes the entire risk of using this software. If you do find any faults with this program, email me and let me know. Amendment History : -------------------- Vers Date Description 1.0 3-May-2004 First Public Release. (51,475 lines of code / comments.) 1.1 14-Jul-2013 Adjust start-up main window size to suit. Recompile and recompress program to remove "damaged application" error. (All of my software does a full self-check on start-up to check nothing has messed with it, and this was failing due to a build issue with the old EXE. Sadly, no-one reported it, so it went unfixed until today when I noticed it. :/ Bring the program up to date with my latest code libraries. (54,527 lines of code, comments, and blank lines). If this program was not downloaded from my Home Page, then it is possibly an old version. The latest version of this program is available from my WEB page - see below. Mike "Moose" O'Malley ____________________________________________________ Moose's Software Valley - Established July, 1996. WEB: http://move.to/moose ____________________________________________________