Anyone heard of Compaq-NSIS-COP/1.0?

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Anyone heard of Compaq-NSIS-COP/1.0?

tkroll

12:55 pm on Jul 15, 2005 (gmt 0)

I ran across this strange user agent today:

Compaq-NSIS-COP/1.0

Anyone know what this is?

Thanks!

Dave_A

1:05 am on Jul 18, 2005 (gmt 0)

That's a new one, I can't find any trace of that robot from anywhere.
I often wonder if some of these are generated by a fourteen year old sitting in a bedroom somewhere playing with some spidering software he has downloaded.

Grin..
Heaps of these odd bots keep turning up and they seem to be using heaps of bandwidth for no reason.

tkroll

2:13 am on Jul 18, 2005 (gmt 0)

I bet you're right. Another weird thing is that it only requests a single page that is no longer on the server. It loves my error page.

Don't be so hard on the kid, though. We were all him once, in some form or another. Haha!

wilderness

4:54 pm on Jul 18, 2005 (gmt 0)

Compaq-NSIS-COP/1.0

If the spidering bot fails to provide a URL to an info page?
Includes an email addy rather than a URL?
or
Provides no idenity at all?

The solution is to deny the UA (if possible).
Otherwise the IP range.