Every morning I pour some steaming coffee in my cup and turn on my computer to read the news. Of course, when I open my email account i have to spend some time, less than a minute to select the important email messages that I really want to read and the spam. Well, sometimes, if the offer is really interesting and appealing, I might open some of the spam email messages, too. It may be pure advertisement or a good offer and I open it just out of curiosity. That is exactly the point. The people doing this – I mean sending spam messages to people they don’t know without their authorization – know that sooner or later you will open and read at least 5% of the messages you get and maybe you will be interested enough to purchase whatever they are advertising or to visit their web site.So one day while I was deleting the unwanted mail again I wondered how do these people get all these email addresses they use for sending spam messages. As I found out later there are certain software programs that scan the Internet pages, looking for email addresses, gathering them all in a data base and then supplying them to other similar customers.
ECrawl 2.41 is such an email harvesting software application. It is able to perform both a targeted and also an untargeted search for email addresses. The Quickstart Wizard is a very useful tool for easily collecting email addresses. It is able to “crawl” into any web site, looking for any email address it may find. I am not sure that this type of software is “bending” or not the law, but after all rules are made to be broken. Somehow ECrawl 2.41 has access to the Google cache and this allows the software a very fast completing of the mission of harvesting lots of email addresses that will be used for spamming.
Of course these attempts are not welcomed by other Internet users and that is precisely the reason why the anti-spam project called “Honeypot” came into being. It is based on the use of some software that is able to detect the email hunters and tracks them by simply copying their IP. Well, apparently ECrawl 2.41 outsmarted them this time and behaves almost humane by avoiding these threats of being blocked. You can use as many keywords as you like as long as this helps you in tracking a bigger number of emails.
This software is connected to more than 300 web sites at the same time and this explains its rapidity and efficiency. It is able to morph and this way it can’t be detected and blocked, so it’s like disguising itself. Every time you start running this software it saves the emails it brings and never uses the same address twice. Besides all these features, you have the possibility to select some features, so you can refuse emails that have a certain number of digits or are too long or too short or using any other kind of criterion of selection. After downloading and installing it, it works by itself, so there’s no need for you to stay there while it is working. You can also choose the maximum number of emails coming from a single web site and also other options.
The software has 1.2 MB, is compatible with all versions of Windows and can be downloaded as free trial here, on the official web site of its developer, Northworks Solutions Ltd . However, the trial version only allows a number of 5000 email addresses , while in the full version you have an unlimited number.You only need to have 256 MB RAM memory and of course Internet connectivity.
