Pfui - 12:18 am on Jan 14, 2008 (gmt 0)

As if MSRBOT, Microsoft Data Access, and Microsoft URL Control weren't rude enough...

Two of my sites are just now getting hammered by the so-called MSLIVSOP bot log-spamming with fake, site-specific keyword referers of the form previously reported --

http://search.live.com/results.aspx?q=KEYWORD&mrt=en-us&FORM=LIVSOP

-- all hailing from MS corporate hosts/IPs --

livebot-65-55-165-aa.search.live.com
livebot-65-55-165-bbb.search.live.com
livebot-65-55-209-cc.search.live.com

-- all supposedly running --

Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.2; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)

-- and some, but not all, hitting js in addition to html.

I decided the quickest solution was to allow only msnbot and/or msnbot-media from .search.live.com. Live human visitors don't show as coming from that host anyway.

And I thought I had enough problems with occasional MS employee abusers via tideXX.microsoft.com. Alleged MS corporate abuse using MSLIVSOP is significantly more resource-wasting.

[1][[b]edited by[/b]: Pfui at 12:24 am (utc) on Jan. 14, 2008][/1]