MSIE 5.01 requesting robots.txt?

anyone who knows this?

[bull]

63.148.99.229 - - [18/Jul/2002:01:26:57 +0200] "GET / HTTP/1.0" 200 1463 www.jc-r.net "-" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.01; Windows NT 5.0)" "10.15.2.108"
63.148.99.229 - - [18/Jul/2002:01:27:02 +0200] "GET /robots.txt HTTP/1.0" 200 30 www.jc-r.net "-" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.01; Windows NT 5.0)" "10.15.2.108"

IP block QWest. Visited also a site I linked to, and requested robots.txt also there. This is surely not IE5.
What to do? Strange enough it does not identify itself correctly.

[jdMorgan]

Bull,

I've had that blocked by IP address for quite some time, using the following RewriteCondition in .htaccess:

RewriteCond %{REMOTE_ADDR} ^63\.148\.99\.2(2[4-9]¦[3-4][0-9]¦5[0-5])$

I don't remember the details, but they apparently warranted a range block when I did it.

Jim

[fiestagirl]

Bull,
That is a "snoop" bot that is coming from a company named Cyveillance.

They own 63.148.99.224 - 63.148.99.255

You can look them up and decide what to do, I've banned them and I think that quite a few others here have too.