Tonight on "The Screen Savers" I'll show you a simple download that lets you post your email address on your website without fear of getting tons of spam.

If you have your own website, you probably want to give visitors your email address. But once you post it on your page, you're leaving yourself wide open to spambots who troll the Web looking for defenseless email addresses to scoop up and then attack with spam or sell to spammers.

You're also leaving yourself vulnerable to viruses. Some email viruses actually go into the cache of the person affected by the virus and find email addresses in webpages the person has visited. If someone has visited your site lately, you're in trouble.

Thanks to Dan P. Benjamin at Hivelogic for creating a simple anti-spam tool that you can use on the Web or download to your Mac or PC. Enter your email address and link text and click on "Encode it." Dan's tool translates your address to special characters and wraps it in JavaScript. The result is simple code you can cut and paste onto your website that spambots are too stupid to decipher.

Thanks to Mike who writes the Lockergnome WebReport for this link.

Download the Hivelogic Email Address Encoder for PC

Download the Hivelogic Email Address Encoder for Mac OS X, Linux and Unix Variants

or use the Hivelogic Web form

Next episode: Banish spam from your inbox.