In the last eight months, the number of spam attacks on website forms has increased 110% worldwide. The result of these attacks is an increase in the number of emails passing through the hosting servers. These thousands of rubbish email messages create a heavy burden on the servers, causing them to operate less efficiently and, in some cases, reboot due to the overload.
Most server administrators are encouraging website owners review the current form handling scripts in place on their site(s). FormMail from Matt Wright (http://www.scriptarchive.com/formmail.html) is the script most administrators recommend using for web forms . This form handler has been proven to be one of the most resistant to attack and is patched regularly to maintain its security.
Due to the amount of messages sent through a hacked script, some server administrators have been forced to suspend some accounts temporarily until a new form handler is in place. If you are running a form handler that may be at risk, consider switching to FormMail or another spam-resistant script as soon as possible.
