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The_Contractor - 10:49 am on Aug 30, 2007 (gmt 0)


Seems this has to be a bot...not a smart one as it seems to like to be sent to a 403 page on the .net domain for the site.

These are all from the 65.55.165.xx range that use the adult/spam faked referrers.

I also see one coming from bl1sch2044210.phx.gbl at 65.55.235.217 with UA of msnbot-media/1.0 (+http://search.msn.com/msnbot.htm). It first showed up on 10:03:23 AM on Sunday, August 26, 2007 and has since come back for a total of 129 pages. I have not blocked this as it only hit less than 130 pages.

There also seems to be a msnbot-media/1.0 bot running with livebot-65-55-213-6.search.live.com (65.55.213.6) and one at livebot-65-55-235-202.search.live.com (65.55.235.202). These do not use the adult/spam/faked referrers.

[edited by: The_Contractor at 10:54 am (utc) on Aug. 30, 2007]


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