Spammergrok
by Michael Peek
A bash script to extract URLs and download data from them a
set number of times, in an effort to waste a spammer's
bandwidth.
Description
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Spammergrok is a simple bash script that will take URLs
on the command line, from one or more files, or extract
them from one or more files containing a single email
message each (via ripmime). Spammergrok will then
proceed to download data from these URLs a set number of
times (via wget) in an effort to waste a spammer's
bandwidth.
Features
- Autoconf configuration and installation of the
spammergrok script
- User configuration of operational parameters via
resource file
- Sane default values, with user-overrides via
resource file (updated/expanded soon)
- Configurable limitations on download speed and
number of download iterations to prevent spammergrok
from overpowering a host
- Ability to download in the background
- Logging of actions and results, with automatic
compression of log files when completed (coming
soon), and automatic removal of old log files after a
configurable amount of time (coming soon)
- Spam mail or URLs may be piped to spammergrok,
given on the command line, or given in one or more
files (one email message per file)
Requirements
- Bash shell environment
- Ripmime for email extraction
- Wget for downloading
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