FAQ




What is e-mail protektor?
E-mail protektor is a script that you insert in your website which alows you to decrypt e-mail addresses on the fly so they are visible to your visitors and at the same time invisible to spam bots.



What is spam?
Spam is unsolicited e-mail sent to a large number of addresses, usually for a commercial purpose. Also referred to as junk e-mail. Companies that send spam messages usually use spam bots to collect e-mail addreses from publicly available websites.



What are spam bots?
Spam bots are complex peaces of software that harvest the internet and collect e-mail addreses. If you put your e-mail address on ANY website, chances are that spam bots will find it and as a consequence you will start to receive spam mails.



What is e-mail harvesting?
E-mail marketing is big business, so companies have developed advenced software that spiders the internet and colects e-mail addresses. This is called e-mail harvesting. By publishing your e-mail on any website, you expose your e-mail and your computer to spam and viruses.



How can I protect my e-mail address from spam?
There are many ways to avoid getting loads of spam. You can decide not to publish your e-mail address on any website, but this way you can't tell your friends and potential customers how to contact you. You could use contact forms on your website, but those are not very well accepted and may not be such a good protection against spam, as you would still have to write your e-mail in the source code of the page. And finaly you could use e-mail protektor, which allows you to have your e-mail on your website and at the same time to hide it against spam bots.



Can I use e-mail protektor with dynamic websites?
Yes. You can insert e-mail protektor in any dynamicaly generated website. It works just fine with php, asp, aspx, jsp, csp....



Why I cant access the source of the javascript file?
We encrypted the source of the javascript to add another layer of protection against spam bots. Please do not try to decrypt the javascript file as it may cease to work.



What if spam bots learn to recognise encrypted e-mails?
When you purchase e-mail protector you will be given a unique key to decrypt your e-mail addresses and a customized version of the script, this way spam bots will not be able to decrypt them. This is a unique feature of e-mail protektor, which will ensure a high level of protection for many years to come.



Can I use e-mail protektor with Content Management Systems?
Yes. E-mail protektor has been tested with many commercial and open source content management systems. It even works with WYSIWYG editors by Microsoft and Mozilla.



Can I use e-mail protektor with flash websites?
Websites that are created completely using Macromedia Flash are already secured against e-mail bots, so you do not need to use e-mail protektor in conjunction with Flash websites. Some websites use just a litle flash to spice up the design, in this case it is advisable to use e-mail protektor.



What is the difference between the Personal and Commercial version?
The Personal fixed to a single URL address, so it works only on that address, and it may be used for as many e-mail addreses as you wish. The Commercial version is aimed at webmasters and webdesign companies that would like to offer protected e-mails to their customers, either for free or for payment.



Can I offer e-mail protector to my customers?
Yes. All you have to do is purchase a commercial license. Note that all your customers will have to enter your scripts unique ID to generate the encrypted e-mail address.



Why do you spell protektor with a K?
This is not a spelling error, it is just our brand name, so you could easaly find e-mail protektor with search engines. This is our brand name and we use it also to be easaly recognized among other similar packages.