Mozi!

[volatilegx]

Has anybody seen or heard of a bot with the User Agent "Mozi!"?

Coming from 129.132.201.234, vcs.ethz.ch

Looks like it's running on a computer at a Swiss University.

[cfel2000]

Could be a kid developing a new tool or search engine. Who may pages did it visit?

[Michael Weir]

Hmm..one of my clients sites was crawled by Mozi! as well.

[bird]

It comes from many different IPs, and fetches one or two seemingly arbitrary pages each time. This access pattern very strongly reminds me of the Grub client.

[Michael Weir]

Grub client?

[bird]

[webmasterworld.com...]
[webmasterworld.com...]

The "Mozi!" probably is a manifestation of the same ols bug responsible for the previous arbitrary garbage, which now inserts a "!\0" (an exclamation mark and a null byte) into the UA string, thus terminating it at that point.