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incrediBILL - 4:42 pm on May 9, 2008 (gmt 0)


I was hit by this UA today 145 times.
"Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1;1813)"

It looks more like a distributed scrape attempt than a toolbar-based link checker because each IP only accessed a single page, nothing more. However, it could be a combination of both s new toolbar and a scraper using the UA at the same time.

AVG deserve to be pilloried for introducing yet another fake user-agent

What proof do we have this is AVG?

Has anyone installed the toolbar and verified it's using this UA yet?


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