I've noticed more activity on this front in the past weeks. The robots scanning for FrontPage "discussion groups" or FrontPage guestbooks are on the increase.

Today you have to actively trim your guestbook or forum (daily?). If not, you will very quickly overload the server hosting your site.

One technique I use to find these files is to perform a search for *.htm or *.html files over 1 MB.

Once find, you can:

- Trim the file down (this will only delay the problem until a few weeks or even days)

- Trim and disable additional posting (make file read only)

- Completely remove the guestbook or "discussion group", unfortunately this might be the only option nowadays since more and more robots will automatically scan the web for known FrontPage components.

- You can also add some security feature see: FrontPage Guestbook, Board, Forms spam