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Does your website have a form? If so, do you get erroneous emails and submissions? Most likely this is due to a malicious computer program called a Spam Bot or Email Bot. These "bots" are automated programs designed to scour the internet to locate forms to compromise. Once a form has been identified, the program will auto-fill the form with its spam or virus. If the program finds an unsecured form, it will record the form's location so the malicious programmer can come back later. Fortunately there's a solution for these pesky bots, a technology called CAPTHCA.


CAPTCHA Technology
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CAPTCHA can be implemented into your form to provide a simple test that most humans can pass, but computer programs cannot. This test will identify and confirm that it is in fact a human being submitting to the form. For example, humans can read distorted text (see example) but computer programs cannot. Since they can't pass the test, they can't submit to the form, hence eliminating their ability to spam.

CAPTHCA has proven to be very successful and is currently being implemented in many applications throughout the internet. If you use the net daily, chances are you have used the CAPTHCA technology when you logged into a free email service, an online forum, or submitted info to an internet poll or general contact form.

Click Here to see how we used CAPTHCA in our "Contact Us" form.

If you're interested in learning more about CAPTHCA technology or would like to implement CAPTHCA into your online forms, contact NGM today.

CAPTCHA is a project of the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University and is funded by the NSF Aladdin Center.

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