Vortex/2.2

[bobothecat]

65.110.22.170 - - [02/Jan/2006:10:34:08 -0600] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 403 243 "-" "Vortex/2.2 (+http://marty.anstey.ca/robots/vortex/)

No request for robots.txt... a snippet of what it's 'supposed' to be:

Vortex is a friendly and considerate web crawling robot that is part of a study I am conducting on internet link distribution. It acts very respectfully towards web servers, and unless you carefully analyze your logfiles you'll never know it was there.

No thanks...

[frontpage]

Indeed, this spider was caught in our trap of folks who disregard the robots.txt and scour our site for forbidden directories.

A bad robot hit /trap/ 2006-01-05 (Thu) 10:23:50 
address is 65.110.22.170, agent is Vortex/2.2 (+http://marty.anstey.ca/robots/vortex/)

[wilderness]

It may not be a bad idea with this IP Range?
To deny all the way up to the backbone.

[fiestagirl]

Thanks, looks like they changed the ua and the ip since I banned then in August.

65.110.21.175
helix/1.2 (+http://www.sitesearch.ca/helix/)