new spiders?

well - at least new to me

[oilman]

I've been hit by 'The Informant' and 'NetAnts' everyday for the past week (sorry, I don't have the IPs). Anybody know who these visitors are?

[oilman]

got NetAnts - it's a download manager.

[littleman]

The Informant is a bot that will crawl listings of the search engines and report when there are any sites that appear. It is a university's CS project. informant.dartmouth.edu [informant.dartmouth.edu]

"The Informant is a FREE! service that will save your favorite search engine queries and web sites, check them periodically, and send you email whenever there are new or updated web pages."

It is actually a nice tool.

[NFFC]

Not seen this before:

karl-spider/0.2 (Under development. Contact [e-mail] Not affiliated with AltaVista in any way.)

What a great UA!

Mailed them already, will let you know.

Edited by: NFFC

[Brett_Tabke]

Here I thought I was the only one that knew about the Informant. I find it is a killer tool. I use it all the time and have toyed with a similar rank tracking system for myself. I've thought about putting it on sew, but I got enough se raiders and emailers going on now. New domain time for some of these tools...

[PeteU]

Only problem I have with Informant's spider is that it is not identifing itself, in fact I've 403 it on server level because it started getting very aggresive.

Anybody familiar with griffon/1.0 ([e-mail])?
Its been knocking on my door for quite some time and I decided to let it in as it seems to resolve to some sort of japanese SE/directory, so far its behaving itself but I did not see any surfer visits from navi.ocn.ne.jp in the logs yet.

[PeteU]

Oops, I think I mixed up Informant with the Cyivillence (sp?) thing, they are the misbehaving kind :)