Micro$oft Nutscrape Spider

New spider?

[lauren1396]

I started noticing this spider coming up in the webtrends report for my site.

Can anyone identify it?

Micro$oft Nutscrape Spider-Spank[mod_Monkey_Slap] (Commodore PET)_v5.87

[Michael Weir]

????

Is that really the name of it?

[volatilegx]

I almost squirted coffee out of my nose when I read that UA LOL

Welcome to WMW lauren1396 :)

[lauren1396]

That is exactly how it appears on the report, but I don't have any more information about it right now.

[physics]

Eeee heee heee heee heee! I've seen some strange ones... but not that strange. Check the IP at [GEEKtools.com ].

[EliteWeb]

:) Entertainingly funny (:

[Marcia]

Boy, was this just a surprise!

Nutscrape/9.0 (CP/M; 8-bit)

[Josk]

from squid config file:

#If you filter the User-Agent header with 'anonymize_headers' it
#may cause some Web servers to refuse your request. Use this to
#fake one up. For example:
#
#fake_user_agent Nutscrape/1.0 (CP/M; 8-bit)
#(credit to Paul Southworth [e-mail] for this one!)

So...you may be seeing someone with squid...

[squid-cache.org...]

[Duckula]

Some smaller proxies allow you to change the user-agent too, most particularly Junkbuster, that is used often to block ads.

Given the twisted sense of humor that makes sense. Specially if the hits pattern corresponds to a human visitor behavior and not to a spider.

(postscript: don't forget the konqueror and such users that can change the UA string from inside the browser! Maybe Opera lets you define your own, I don't remember right now)