Getting Email Addresses?

[Peter Bonivart]

Mike McMullen wrote:
> I've had some employees tell me that after visiting certain
> web pages at certain sites, they start getting spam email from
> those sites. However, they say they didn't enter their email
> address.
>
> I haven't verified this myself but is this possible? If so how
> is it done? Has anyone heard of this?

I've heard of it. It had something to do with that forms can be
automatically entered with an e-mail address and those can be fetched
from the local computer by scripts on the server.

Maybe you can google for a more technical description.

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