URL Control

[wilderness]

Just a heads up.
No other pages. No images.

64.72.196.66 - - [06/Jun/2003:14:44:49 -0700] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 403 - "-" "Microsoft URL Control - 6.00.8169"
64.72.196.66 - - [06/Jun/2003:14:44:49 -0700] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 200 9409 "-" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0)"

[IITian]

I got this yesterday. Have no idea what it is up to.

[DavidT]

Isn't Microsoft URL Control old news, or is there something I'm missing?

[wilderness]

David
Please note the successive lines with different UA's.
First the CONTROL is denied and the UA is changed immediately for a second visit.

[ncw164x]

Spammers are now wise to the fact that their programs are returning so many 403's etc that they are hitting servers immediately with a second request using a different UA if the first one returns a blank, or in this case hit it twice in the same second.

[wilderness]

Spammers are now wise

If that turns out to be the new trend, than they'll be geeting redirected to nulls and black holes of delay.