Internet Exploder showing up in my logs

What the heck is this?

[DKDiveDude]

For the past week or so, a user agent called "Internet Exploder" has gone to the top, surpassing IE 6.0 and IE 5.0.

What the heck is this? Is it a new browser, or is it a "Site Extractor" I should add to my .htaccess?

[DKDiveDude]

Just look some text I copied form my webstats page:

Top 15 of 69 Total User Agents

# Hits User Agent

1 17519 72.15% Internet Exploder
2 11132 45.85% MSIE 6.0
3 4519 18.61% MSIE 5.0

Although I know that hackers use "Internet Exploder" as a slang for "Internet Explorer" I did NOT know that there actually was a browser/Site Extractor program with that name...

[wattsnew]

My browser has been dubbed "Infernal Exploiter" but somehow I don't think that turns up in logs... :-)

[jdMorgan]

It could be a robot, good or bad, or it could some browser where the user has changed its user-agent name - easy to do by editing the Windows registry, for example.

Based on what you know of your site's traffic, you'll have to decide if it fits the pattern of a site harvester/downloader or an active user.

I don't know your site, but looking at your small log sample, I'd be inclined to track it closely or ban it.

Jim

[JasonHamilton]

if you're using webalizer, I seem to recall that was the name for msie when using the grouping option.

for example, if you had 20% on ie5, and 60% on ie6, it would list exploder at 80%.

[JasonHamilton]

I just checked with my webalizer, this is what it shows:

1 10592349 82.70% Micro$oft Internet Exploder
2 4387296 34.25% MSIE 6.0
3 3718555 29.03% MSIE 6.0 (Windows NT 5.1)