How can answer all questions that appeared, etc...
http://answers.yahoo.com/my/profile?show=8536a341f424bf73ddfa256d79974285aa
I mean the oldest question answered was 4 hours ago.
Is that kind of... what? I have no idea at all
2006-12-17 00:11:39 · 26 answers · asked by Anonymous in Entertainment & Music ➔ Polls & Surveys
This 'answerer' is a bot, a program set up by a hacker to automatically answer questions to trap people into clicking on the highlighted link. There was a very invasive bot yesterday called "man" that when I signed off last night had nearly 30,000 points in 3 days. What ever you do DO NOT CLICK ON THE LINK several people have reported that the links contain a virus and if they had not had a virus scan their computer would have been infected. Just report this bot and with luck Yahoo will figure out a way to stop this from continuing. You'll see the letters RAMO which is 'report and move on'.
2006-12-17 00:17:29 · answer #1 · answered by i have no idea 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
A spambot is a program designed to collect e-mail addresses from the Internet in order to build mailing lists for sending unsolicited e-mail, also known as spam. A spambot is a type of web crawler, that can gather e-mail addresses from Web sites, newsgroups, special-interest group (SIG) postings, and chat-room conversations. Because e-mail addresses have a distinctive format, spambots are easy to write.
A number of legislators in the U.S. are reported to be devising laws that would outlaw the spambot. A number of programs and approaches have been devised to foil spambots. One such technique is known as address munging, in which an e-mail address is deliberately modified so that a human reader (and/or human-controlled Web browser) can decode it but a spambot cannot. This has led to the evolution of sophisticated spambots that can recover e-mail addresses from character strings that appear to be munged.
The term spambot is sometimes used in reference to a program designed to prevent spam from reaching the subscribers of an Internet service provider (ISP). Such programs are more often called e-mail blockers or filters. Occasionally, such a blocker may inadvertently prevent a legitimate e-mail message from reaching a subscriber. This can be prevented by allowing each subscriber to generate a whitelist, or a list of specific e-mail addresses the blocker should let pass.
Another type of spambot surfs the web, looking for forms to submit, and it submits spam e-mails to these web forms, often with OCR technology to bypass any CAPTCHAs.
There are also spambots used to post spam links to guestbooks, wikis, blogs, forums and any other web forms to boost search engine ranking.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spambot
2006-12-17 08:18:36 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Its a bot (automated person) . It is automated and is set up to answer every question that you put out there with the same spam. Every time it answers it gets points and apparently has answered enough to rise in levels. I don't know how it managed to get past the level one limit...
2006-12-17 08:14:55 · answer #3 · answered by slaughter114 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
It is probably a virus don't open it it is not at all possible to reach level 4 in that short of time.
Watch out for MAN too!
2006-12-17 08:15:12 · answer #4 · answered by Penny Mae 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Become a Bot
2006-12-17 08:13:12 · answer #5 · answered by firefly 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
well he answered 2032 questions. That has to count for something right?
Maybe he just spammed on all of them to get more levels, because none of them are best answers.
2006-12-17 08:14:16 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
open multiple windows on your screen and just answer like crazy. you can get about 50 pnts in half an hour!
2006-12-17 08:13:33 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
It's called a bot. Friggin annoying too.
2006-12-17 08:12:36 · answer #8 · answered by ♫ Insane_Princess ♪ 5 · 4⤊ 1⤋
unless this person is sitting on the computer 24 hours a day i dont know how they could do it
2006-12-17 09:57:50 · answer #9 · answered by kayme42 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
That used to happen all the time actually...I'm a little surprised to see it again...
2006-12-17 08:14:46 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋