Spoofed Baidu spider and referer spam

Somebody is spoofing the Baidu spider

[richardmasoner]

I recently noticed that a spoof Baidu spider is crawling my site with a variety of referers; though mostly these seem to be findmore.org. My website stats page is excluded from crawling through robots.txt so referer spam doesn't work there, but I thought I'd give a heads up.

findmore.org is a spammy site: a non-functioning "search engine," scraped content, and affiliate sales pages. Google lists over 10,000 pages that "contain" findmore.org; the pages I glanced at are all blogs and stat pages that list referers.

The spoofed spiders are coming from IP addresses 202.102.x.xx, 219.130.xx.xx, 219.130.xx.xx, 219.130.xx.xx, and 219.130.xx.xx. I've banned these IPs from my website.

RFM

[edited by: Woz at 11:56 pm (utc) on June 6, 2005]
[edit reason] anonymized IPs [/edit]

[DanA]

From 202.102.xx.xx and 219.130.xx.xx I also have spoofed and unspoofed UAs.
Not sure someone else is spoofing and spamming.

[edited by: Woz at 11:56 pm (utc) on June 6, 2005]
[edit reason] Anonymised IPs [/edit]

[Span]

If you do a serch for "baiduspider spoofers ip" you'll find some more IPs and referrers.