trek29.sv.av.com As an IP Address Making Requests

Is this AV, or someone else?

[Eric_Lander]

trek29.sv.av.com - - [31/Jul/2002:03:15:36 -0400] "GET /file-name-removed.htm HTTP/1.1" 206 2588

The above represents one of three requests that I found within my logs over the night for a small web site that has not yet been submitted to any engine or linked to by any other sites. It's completely new site, and it just looks weird to see a request coming from a domain as opposed to a numerical IP.

Any ideas on what this is? My first guess would be an AV spider, though, I am not sure.

Thanks!

[Eric_Lander]

Jut noticed something weird too, when I searched for that full domain on Google, I found that it actually has a SERP. I expected to find someone's crawled logs/stats or nothing at all.

[google.com...]

In any event, upon access, I am getting a DNS error.

[volatilegx]

I would be inclined to believe it is an Alta Vista spider, although the lack of a UA is uncommon. Alta Vista visiting with no UA was also discussed here: [webmasterworld.com...]

[Jaf]

I've just seen entries such as this

trek19.sv.av.com - - [07/Aug/2002:07:13:04 -0400] "GET /news/asctohtm/doco/misc/course/searchengines/doco/misc/course/asctohtm/index.html HTTP/1.1" 404 5498 "-" "Scooter/3.2"

Thing is, I've had 8000+ of these today, where a bad URL has been constructed. news/, asctohtm/, doco/, misc/course/, searchengines/ are all valid directories, and index.html is a valid page, but somehow the spider has messed up and merged them all in a near-infinite number of combinations.

Anyone any idea who I can contact to stop this.

Also - since I'm in whinge mode - the "post reply" button doesn't appear in this forum when I use Mozilla 1.0 >sigh<