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Spoofing LookSmart?

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11:45 pm on Jul 29, 2003 (gmt 0)

WebmasterWorld Senior Member 10+ Year Member



Today, I just got a curious robot who ignored robots.txt and entered our bad robot trap.

Here is our alert message:

A bad robot hit /trap/ 2003-07-29 (Tue) 16:34:35
address is 216.88.158.142, agent is Mozilla/4.0 compatible ZyBorg/1.0 (wn.zyborg@looksmart.net; [WISEnutbot.com)<...]

The IP recorded above belongs to Savvis.net. Does this company have anything to do with looksmart?

jeremy goodrich

11:50 pm on Jul 29, 2003 (gmt 0)

WebmasterWorld Senior Member 10+ Year Member



Take a look at this thread:
[webmasterworld.com...]

they are, at this point, disregarding robots.txt entirely.