Scooter out in full server abuse mode...

[Brett_Tabke]

Anyone else getting their servers beat up by scooter? Thousands upon thousands of hits to some sites. Wide range of sites so I imagine it has been happening to everyone.

[msgraph]

The Scooter-W3-1.0 one? It's been hitting a bunch of sites pretty hard, but not too abusive.

The non-UA spider off of 209.73.164.149 is sending chills up my spine. It's visiting every site under my belt only once. Not worried about most of the sites, but there are a few.....

[agerhart]

I am also getting hit by Scooter-W3-1.0, not to mention a few others.....I am not complaining though, I just shelled out money to them

[FreeBee]

209.73.162.22 -- Scooter-W3-1.0 definitely doing the rounds today. Have been looking for a deep crawl on non-submitted pages here [webmasterworld.com] - looks like only previously submitted pages are getting grabbed on this round too.

(agerhart, out of interest - on your recent paid submissions, which spiders coming through?)

[agerhart]

These are all of the ones that are showing. A few of them have only hit once, or twice.

Scooter 16 6.6
Scooter-W3-1.0
Scooter-3.0.EU
Scooter-3.0.s1
Scooter-3.0.fh1
Scooter-3.0.FS

[merlin78]

Yeah I've been hit by Scooter-W3-1.0 and Scooter-3.0.FS.
Got heavily hit by Scooter last week. Apart from that there have only been from 10 - 100 hits from the above two.

[Marcia]

Just about daily, all the pages, including all in the graphics section on one.

[Brett_Tabke]

Banned em for a little while.
[webmasterworld.com...]

270 hits in 6mins is excessive under any definition.

In the last 36hours:
Trek11 2225
Trek23 707
Trek3 995
Trek30 2429
trek7 1121

[agerhart]

WOW! They really like the site!

[Brett_Tabke]

I believe they were mostly responsible for the site being down on monday.

[mark_roach]

Stats from yesterday on one of my sites:

14153: Scooter-W3-1.0
1141: Scooter-3.0.FS

[mivox]

Wow... I wonder if there's some kind of massive programming glitch related to an attempted "new feature" or something. Did anyone notice it trying to access new types of information, like following dynamic links, or something like that?

I've seen strange things happen to scripts during editing. Like they were trying to do A, but they skipped a semi-colon somewhere, and ended up killing the sub-routines that previously prevented B from happening...

I can't imagine a legitimate engine would knowingly program a spider to act that way.

[Doofus]

Scooter hit me with 220 GETs in one minute (3.67 per second).

All but the first 40 were dished out as "Server too busy" once I determined that they were hitting too fast, so it must have thought that if one "Server too busy" page comes back so quickly, why not get lots of 'em! ("Take two, they're small!")

[caine]

I have'nt seen the volume of gets as some of you'se chaps, as the site that i am chapioning at the mo, has just had it first visit, or should i say visits.

Scooter19
Scooter3
Scooter9
trek1
trek10
trek14
trek16
trek24
trek5
trek6

Though, i've seen av url verifiers, or do i thought, is this a good sign to have all these bots coming for pages, or is there anything else going on ?

[roscoepico]

Not only am I seeing them hit pages previously indexed, I am seeing them follow brand new links(implemented yesterday)as far as three levels deep..

[msgraph]

What started as a small crawl is getting way out of hand today. Now I'm seeing the same thing as others, it's grabbing a page every 2 seconds.

[jimmykav]

It's gone mad!

in last 24 hours:
106 requests from Scooter-3.0.FS
217 " " Scooter-W3-1.0

BTW - 10 from fast-webcrawler

[Brett_Tabke]

AV techs are aware of it now.

Thank You!

[agerhart]

>>>>>BTW - 10 from fast-webcrawler >>>>>

they are hitting one of my sites pretty hard now too

[Brett_Tabke]

That is a problem when they all decide to gang up at the same time. We're not to far from a GoogleBot coming out in full force either. Especially here where we get so much rogue/nasty spider traffic.

[Chris_R]

I am actually happy to see them. I thought AV had given up on me. They have been to all of my sites that I monitor, and 90% of them were never submitted.

This could be a good sign actually. Come on AV.... You can do it - give Google some competition.

[itbegary]

They have been hitting my site like nothing I have ever seen. The last 3 days have been painfull so I hope the indexing pay's off. About 5 hits per second with a break for about 3 hours mid day today.

[zero6]

Hi All,

Confirming the same.

I have Scooter-W3-1.0 traul through over 600 pages in 24 hours but not hitting with enough frequency to cause a problem.

I actually only submitted the root url and it's followed all my links down 3 levels with 50 links on each page.

[mack]

hi there i also had scooter make a pas on my site today.scooter3.sv.av.com - - [22/Jul/2001:11:46:23 +0100] "GET /robots.txt HTTP/1.0" 404 - "-" "Scooter-3.0.FS"
scooter3.sv.av.com - - [22/Jul/2001:11:46:24 +0100] "GET /chat/ HTTP/1.0" 200 996 "-" "Scooter-3.0.FS"

to be honest i am glad because i havent seen any av action here for months.

[ritualcoffee]

Scooter can bite me! That thing hit me so many times in the past month and then dropped my site significantly. GRRR!

[agerhart]

>>>Scooter can bite me!>>>

hope noone from AV is here!

[ritualcoffee]

I'm just frustrated not malicious. <!-- like being frustrated isn't a normal trait in this business --> :)

[Brett_Tabke]

Scooter has slowed down considerably here.

(thank you).

[jimmykav]

Its at it again!
in last 24 hours
377 hits from Scooter-W3-1.0
17 hits from Scooter-3.0.EU

Cant we join forces and ask AV to stop this madness?

[themoff]

1182 hits in the last 22 hours from

209.73.162.41 [Scooter-W3-1.0]
209.73.162.161 [Scooter-W3-1.0]
209.73.162.82 [Scooter-W3-1.0]
209.73.164.129 [Scooter-3.0.EU]
209.73.164.50 [Scooter/1.0]

A strange pattern of hits tho. .41 came aroud and requested over 400 pages that don't exist any more, and haven't for over 6 months. 6 hours later, same IP came back and indexed just the existing content, starting from index.asp, although didn't follow any ? links from these linked pages.
Three hours later, same IP again, indexing the same stuff as it had the previous time (most of it 404), but since it had last been, I'd uploaded around 300 pages of stuff that was previous 404, so I'm not complaining :)