Google, Hotmail, Yahoo and there are lot of Internet companies that spend millions of dollars for Image “CAPTCHAS” to stop automatic registration on their websites. Xrumer is a tool commonly used to automate registration a countless numbers of forums. With the latest version of Xrumer (5.0A) spammers can automate the process of registration on websites like Hotmail and Gmail. Xrumer (5.0A) is capable of cracking some of the most difficult CAPTCHAS.

Any Internet spammer who want to spread or automate the registration process can easily purchase a copy of Xrumer for about $520 from botmaster.net.

Instead of using CAPTCHAS in registration process i think asking simple mathematical or environmental questions can be a good solution instead of wasting a good amount of money in CAPTCHAS.

CAPTCHA (Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart) or HIP (Human Interactive Proof). HIPs are used for many purposes, such as to reduce email and blog spam and prevent brute-force attacks on web site passwords. Most website like Gmail, Hotmail, Yahoo Mail and many other blog website’s use these HIP’S to ask their users to identity the text and in this way they distinguish between the human and spammer. Some times it’s very difficult and challenging for the user to understand these CAPTCHA.

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