66.207.121.61, P-P-C Cancel, {World Online}, pide-09-00

Violated robots.txt, changed U-A four times in two minutes

[jazzguy]

Anybody seen anything like this? It came from 66.207.121.61 and it did not fetch robots.txt so it grabbed all html files including disallowed ones. It also switched User-agents four times within two minutes:

• Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.01; Windows 98; P-P-C Cancel)
  
• Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.01; Windows 98; {World Online})
  
• Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.01; Windows NT 5.0)
  
• Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.01; Windows NT 5.0; pide-09-00)
  

[pendanticist]

I can't say as I've seen anything similar. However, Thanks for the heads up. We'll be banning them post haste.

Pendanticist.

[bull]

owner is:

Orbex Computer Systems Inc. FW-ORBEX-1 (NET-66-207-121-0-1)
66.207.121.0 - 66.207.121.255

or www.orbex.com

Personally, I denied 66.207.121.

[jazzguy]

Yeah, I banned Orbex's whole range, too. When I see suspicious activity, I usually block first, ask questions later. I took a look at their website and I don't see any reason for them to be crawling my site.