Mediapartners-Google/2.1

Download my adware software?

[jim_w]

Wht did Mediapartners bot download my adware software? And it downloaded the entire thing. The zip does not run ads. The software does, but not any adsense/adwords ads.

66.249.66.100 - - [01/May/2005:12:40:07 -0400] "GET /dir1/dir2/mysoftware.zip HTTP/1.1" 200 2292510 "-" "Mediapartners-Google/2.1"

[Galtego]

If someone running AdSense frames a link to the download of your zip, that might do it. I see Mediapartners retrieving pages that don't have AdSense when people get to the pages through Ask Jeeves.

[jim_w]

I changed the link to the zip file after I posted the 1st message and have not gotten any 404’s. So I don’t think that is it.

I wonder, the zip file is downloaded via a script file. I wonder if the bot followed the cgi link to see if I was doing anything sneaky and just cost me some bandwidth for no reason.