New Excite bot?

Similar IP but no ID

[too much information]

6/30/2003,9:30:04 PM,198.6.50.35,Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.0),www.mydomainname.com
6/30/2003,9:30:25 PM,198.6.50.35,Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.0),www.mydomainname.com
6/30/2003,9:30:38 PM,198.6.50.35,Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.0),www.mydomainname.com
6/30/2003,9:30:48 PM,198.6.50.35,Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.0),www.mydomainname.com

This showed up in my log file tonight and it acts like a bot. All of the referers show up as my home page but it never hit my homepage, and the hits are about 10 seconds apart on a very image oriented site.

I can't find anything about it being a robot, and I didn't find out much in a whois either. Does anyone have any info on this one?

[jdMorgan]

too_much_information,

According to ARIN [ws.arin.net] that's from Symantec corporation. I wonder if they are scanning your site for viruses or security problems...?

Jim

[too much information]

wow, that's weird!

Thanks for the info. I wonder why my whois didn't turn up anything. Maybe it was too late at night and my eyes closed on me. ;)

Since it is from Symantec it could be that my host installed some new virus protection software. I did just update my site, which may have triggered a scan.