iexplore.exe

[keyplyr]

AFAIK iexplore.exe is a system process for Internet Explorer/Windows, but what specifically would cause it to show as the UA is a dozen or more requests?

**.**.**.* - - [20/Jun/2004:11:25:05 -0700] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 200 10608 "-" "iexplore.exe"

(The IP belongs to Road Runner broadband ISP.) Thanks

[digitalv]

They probably just altered their user agent. No big deal :)

[keyplyr]

Thanks, but I think the user is using iexplore.exe for some purpose - maybe as a download agent?

He came back again and is switching back and forth:

**.74.209.8 - - [20/Jun/2004:11:30:56 -0700] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 200 10608 "-" "iexplore.exe"
**.74.209.8 - - [20/Jun/2004:11:30:57 -0700] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 200 10588 "-" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; YComp 5.0.0.0; .NET CLR 1.0.3705)"

[digitalv]

Could be a number of reasons as to why - its more and more common though. I often browse with a fake Googlebot user agent because many sites allow Google to spider their full content (while everyone else has to log in or subscribe).