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Q: Lately, the past 2 months at least, I was getting at least 1 or 2 emails a day that were full of links...obviously spam! Over the past couple weeks I started getting that awelrj@mysite.com. Today I've had at least 15 of those emails and 3 of the one with links (from free sites like blogger.co and freeweb.com etc). Anyway, my 2 sites are ..htm and I'm not a programmer. I can build a basic site but since I use javascript to validate and my form is just like what you talked about in the hijacking article, "<form action="http://www.mydomain.com/process.php" method="post">. In this example the form processing script would be http://www.mydomain.com/process.php." So, I'd say it's pretty obvious that my form (and server?) is being hijacked. I didn't even realise this until I read your article and my host is not much help. I'm here asking for help. I'm willing to pay for either your time, your product(s), or both. I simply need to resolve this asap. I've contemplated switching my site to php but afraid it'll hurt my search engine rankings. Anyway, sorry to blabber on. Is there anything you can suggest? Should I recreate my form with your Form1 Builder software? I have to change my forms every few months according to the demands of the merchants I send data to so if I used a new form, I would have to be able to change it now and again.

A: You can use the Form1 processing script with your existing forms. ie simply use Form1 Builder to generate the processing script, upload it to your server (as long as your server supports php) and adjust the form action of your forms to point to the processing script. See the Form Action Method section of the Help file https://bizpep.com/form1/ for details. You do not need to convert your site to php it can remain exactly as is but you do need to have a server that supports php to run the processing script. This approach will allow you to incorporate all the anti spam / hijacking features of Form1 processing. An alternative is our hosted form processing service https://bizpep.com/host.php . This uses the Form1 processing but it runs on our server so you do not need php at all. This could also provide a an easy and quick suitable solution. Either of these solutions will provide improved protection for your forms.

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