Strange behaviour in the error logs:

one address has requested _vti_inf.html 100's of times

[Bogglesworld]

I know _vti_inf.html is a file for Frontpage. I am wondering why I am getting bombarded with these requests. Is this a security threat? It seems that the request are being automatically generated. Is somebody probing me?

Sat May 4 14:32:51 2002] [error] (2)No such file or directory: Incorrect permissions on webroot "/. . . public_html/_vti_pvt" and webroot's _vti_pvt directory in FrontPageAlias().
[Sat May 4 14:32:50 2002] [error] [client 161.184.200.13] File does not exist: /. . . /public_html/404.shtml
[Sat May 4 14:32:50 2002] [error] [client 161.184.200.13] File does not exist: / . . /public_html/_vti_inf.html
[Sat May 4 14:18:10 2002] [error] [client 161.184.200.13] File does not exist: / . . . /public_html/404.shtml
[Sat May 4 14:18:10 2002] [error] [client 161.184.200.13] File does not exist: / . . . public_html/_vti_bin/shtml.exe

[Olaf]

He is either
a) Testing a Frontpage bug on your server
or
b) Checking if he can access you page from Frontpage.

I get that alot also. Some are definite security hole checkers, while others are valid browsers that later on want to copy the html format/data through frontpage.

Olaf