SlurpConfirm404

Is this really Slurp?

[fish_eye]

For the last few weeks I've been getting a bot looking for files in directories called SlurpConfirm404
eg. example.com/SlurpConfirm404/prophtell/08/Mitchell.htm

I've never had a directory called this and there is nothing in the url remotely like any files or directories I've ever had.

The UA says it's:

UA:   Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Yahoo! Slurp; http://help.yahoo.com/help/us/ysearch/slurp)

Needless to say I suspect it's not Slurp but it is obeying my robots.txt and it's otherwise also well behaved.

I can find nothing on the web (other than something similar in someone else's logs) although the IP does seem to appear in quite a few more logs.

Any ideas what this might be? Can I post the IP?

[Prolific]

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others are in search of the answer as well.

[fish_eye]

I've never had a directory called this and there is nothing in the url remotely like any files or directories I've ever had.

Just realised this is not true - on occasions it's looking for /SlurpConfirm/garbage/OneOfMyFiles.htm

PS. Sorry for the apparent duplication of threads - I originally posted in Yahoo and it has been moved..... good call especially considering that I find it hard to believe this is really Y!

[shogix]

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