Scooter Spider is Confused?

filling my error logs with junk

[idiotgirl]

Got hit repeatedly by:

209.73.162.133 /usr/local/etc/httpd/htdocs/[domain]/kjhgdkjhf1goifj2lktjelj34knfhjguih8bbj/index.html

I reversed the IP to: scooter1.sv.av.com

It kept putting in garbage characters after the domain name for some reason. Filled my error logs with a bunch of lines of junk - as it did this with several domains.

Anyone else seen this?

Oh- and I was bombarded by MarkWatch, too. Came back every few milliseconds. Added to the banned list.

[volatilegx]

I've seen (actually not seen, but had reported to me) such hits by AV.

I'm going by the assumption that somebody's feeding Scooter the jibberish in an attempt to overload a buffer or something... I don't really know.

[idiotgirl]

Thought it was pretty strange. I never noticed that before with AV. Just didn't seem legit.

Just to be safe - I 403'd the AV spider's IP into oblivion. Same for MarkWatch.

My banned list is getting pretty hefty :(