normal web page acts as spider

[helenp]

Hi I donīt know if this is where to post this,
but often seen in stats, that suddenly some webpage I ever seen, and without links to my site, are an referer for several visitors.

Today had 56 visits in 2 hours from an german webpage.
Downloaded the raw file and seen itīs really visits 56 diferents pages of mine, as if where an spider.
How and why can this happens?

This is an exampel from my raw file:
211.152.14.98 - - [18/Mar/2004:10:22:46 -0500] "GET /sitemap.htm HTTP/1.1" 404 1766 "http://website.html" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.00; Windows 98"
211.152.14.98 - - [18/Mar/2004:10:22:53 -0500] "GET /mysite_1.htm HTTP/1.1" 404 1766 "http://website.html" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.00; Windows 98"
211.152.14.98 - - [18/Mar/2004:10:22:54 -0500] "GET /mysite_2.htm HTTP/1.1" 404 1766 "http://website.html" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.00; Windows 98"
211.152.14.98 - - [18/Mar/2004:10:22:58 -0500] "GET

All from same Ip.....and always diferent pages of mine.

[jdMorgan]

helenp,

It's simply a spider written to use a false referrer and a fake user-agent name.

Jim

[bull]

I'm wondering if MSIE 5.00 is a valid user-agent at all? (At least FlashGet (download program) uses it).

Additionally, the ending ')' is missing here.

[helenp]

Thanks,
Helen