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Spider definition - hacker
An automated program that reads Web pages from a Website and then follows the hypertext (HTTP) links to other pages. Spammers use spiders to sift through Web pages to look for (that is, harvest) email addresses.

See Also: Bot or Robot; Electronic Mail or Email; HTTP (HyperText Transfer Protocol); Spammers.

Webster's New World Hacker Dictionary Copyright © 2006 by Bernadette Schell and Clemens Martin.
Published by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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