capture e-mail addresses of the visitors to this to this website

[aa]

I heard that it is possible on a website to capture e-mail addresses of the
visitors to this to this website.
Is this correct?
If this question does not belong in here, which NG should I address it to?

 

[Peter Lawton]

Only if they fill in a form and tell you their email addresses, if it were
possible it would be a gross invasion of privacy and a spammers dream
wouldn't it?

All you can easily get is what appears in your IIS logs, IP address, time,
date, browser etc

Peter Lawton

 

[Michael Santovec]

The appropriate newsgroup would be one for the version of Internet Explorer that you use.

Use the following newsgroup for questions or problems with IE5
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.windows.inetexplorer.ie5.browser

Use the following newsgroup for questions or problems with IE5.5
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.windows.inetexplorer.ie55.browser

Use the following newsgroup for questions or problems with IE6
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.windows.inetexplorer.ie6.browser

By the way, you appear to have posted to this newsgroup using your real e-mail address.
Anyone who reads this news post, now has your e-mail address. That includes spammers and
viruses.

 

[aa]

Thanks, gentlmen.
The purpose I was asking the question was not to capture someone else
address, but to make sure that my address is not captured by others when I
visit websites.

So if I do not fill the forms or leave it in a newsgroups my address is not
available to the websites I visit.
The how do the spoofers/spamers get the addresses?
Is it possible that a code is downloaded together with the webpage which
then looks for the email address in, say my Outlook settings?

PS
Thanks for warning about using the real address in the NG

 

[Peter Lawton]

Yes, you should be safe as long as you don't fill in your address yourself.

Spammers get addresses from several sources, including people filling in
their addresses on web sites which then get sold.

If you let malware install on your PC then a bit of spam is probably the
least of your worries, but keep up to date with all the MS patches, run an
up to date AV scanner and use a firewall and you should be safe enough.

Peter Lawton