WebGo IS - 2168

Good/Bad or just plain Ugly?

[pendanticist]

I Google'd "WebGo IS - 2168" and searched here at WebmasterWorld finding nothing.

67.112.13.134 - - [25/Sep/2003:06:20:42 -0700] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 200 20690 "-" "[b]WebGo IS - 2168[/b]"

Any idea what this one is all about?

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Pendanticist.

[edited by: pendanticist at 9:00 pm (utc) on Sep. 25, 2003]

[Goober]

it's coming from here:

Pac Bell Internet Services
OrgID: PACB
Address: 208 Bush St. #5000
City: San Ramon
StateProv: CA
PostalCode: 94104
Country: US

Thats all I could find.

Goober

[cyberkat]

It may be new, most likely someone using a simple proggie like "SamSpade" and changing the UA. I would keep notes on those mystery UA. If I find bad activies I ban via .htaccess.
You can also ban them via .htaccess to see what you stir up with them. They tend to show their true colors when receiving 403's.

[claus]

Web Scraping software (site ripper) - brief mention here (the link webgo dot com does not work anymore):

http //jmason.org/scraping/index.html

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Ban it using

^WebGo [NC]

or

^WebGo\ IS [NC]

- ie. without the version number.

[fiestagirl]

Webgo is a piece of software that scrapes articles from websites. I suppose that it can be used for good or evil, just like anything. I've seen some questionable behavior from it and have it banned.

Claus beat me to it!

[pendanticist]

Thanks all. :)

I ban these funny ones first, by IP Number until I find out who/what and then I adds it...

RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^WebGo\ IS [NC]

Something like that?

Pendanticist.

[claus]

>> RewriteCond

- that'll do it ;)