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Summation Script

         

DavidT

5:18 pm on Dec 15, 2002 (gmt 0)

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My site was visited by this:
24.237.3.162 - - "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows NT 5.0;SummationScript:2.00)"

On doing a search on Google for "summation script" there was essentially only one result-the company's site that produces the script.
It's a litigation software program used to collect evidence online and once installed it apparently attaches the above to the browser's string.
It or he looked at a few pages and by the logs seemed to spend about a minute on the site.
Just wondering if anyone has any experience of this and what if anything I should do about it.

wilderness

7:40 pm on Dec 15, 2002 (gmt 0)

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Looks to me like something similar to gossamer. Just s different wrapping.
In either event the products goal is to use your resources for their income.
A quote below from their page:

"To make this possible, we have provided over 600 scripting entry points organized into a Scripting Object Model."
end of quote

Whether you allow a business to use your resources without compensating you is entirely your decision.
I can tell you that should you look at things in this frame of mind, you'll surely change your outlook on who you allow to visit your site.

We've all seen these plagarism and name protection/copyright bots. They collect revenue and don't offer us a share.

<soapbox>IMO a similar and paralell united stand should be taken against backbone providers and providers in general on enforcement of their own terms of use when their susbcribers traverse the internet. :-) </soapbox>Off my soap box