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Originally Posted by HobieMarty
What are bots and what do they do?
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Some scrape your content so they can build their own site to attract search engine traffic, on which they can show ads to make money.
Some search for emails to which they can send spam.
Some find your website forms so they can spam you through your forms.
Some search for vulnerabilities and exploits so they can install malicious code on your server.
The malicious code can be used to: try to hack other websites, send email spam to others, send form spam to others, encrypt your server contents so they can demand a ransom to decrypt it, or display messages from Islamic fundamentalists bragging that they hacked it.
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