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page_verifier

Scanning for malware

         

GaryK

4:34 pm on Jul 2, 2006 (gmt 0)

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page_verifier (http://www.securecomputing.com/goto/pv)
206.169.110.66

Read and respected robots.txt. Their mission statement bothers me though. They claim to be scanning public web pages for malware. Why? To sell us stuff? Is this just log spam?

wilderness

3:15 pm on Jul 3, 2006 (gmt 0)

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206.169.110.66 - - [09/Nov/2005:16:51:19 -0800] "GET / HTTP/1.0" 200 8046
"-" "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows 95)"

GaryK

3:34 pm on Jul 3, 2006 (gmt 0)

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Sneaky little devil.

I'll be banning this guy's (BRIAN BOSVELD) small range of IP Addresses:
206.169.110.64 - 206.169.110.95

Thanks Don.

incrediBILL

6:40 pm on Jul 3, 2006 (gmt 0)

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It also crawls as:

206.169.110.66 "virus_detector virus_harvester@securecomputing.com"

Pfui

10:19 pm on Jul 3, 2006 (gmt 0)

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FWIW...

conswfw01.securecomputing.com - - [28/Jun/2006:16:29:05 -0700] "GET /robots.txt HTTP/1.0" 403 803 "-" "page_verifier (http://www.securecomputing.com/goto/pv)"