bot or inline advertising?

[incrediBILL]

Anyone ever see anything like this before, 2 urls in one UA?

"Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; http://www.sexeel.com ; http://www.onexplorer.com; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)"

They're both hosted on layeredtech.com, the IP was from bulldogdsl, so I'm not sure this was a spamming effort or some weirdo toolbar thing.

I've been seeing so many user agents with web addresses in them that now I just universally block everything that has what appears to be advertising in the UA.

My webstats are now an advertising medium.

[edited by: volatilegx at 11:48 pm (utc) on Feb. 2, 2007]
[edit reason] unlinked the urls [/edit]

[wilderness]

Bill,
I seem to recall an old thread in which there were multiple URL's in the UA. Damn if I'd have any idea on how to locate it in the archives.

Some real junk comes from layered. I have portions of their ranges denied.

There was a time when I added all these log spammers to my denys.
Today I just leave them alone. Eventually they go away.

My feeling on makiing inquiries in the open forum for these types of things (and colo's also) is that we only enhance their effort of advertising, thus, I don't even pass them on.

Don

[jdMorgan]

space semicolon space -- Invalid syntax... 403-bye. ;)

Based on their market demographic and the Layered Tech, I'd say that whatever it is, it probably ain't good.

Jim

[wilderness]

space semicolon space -- Invalid syntax... 403-bye.

Golly gee Jim, That Rewrite been implemented so long that I don't even look for.

And just advised a double-poster of the same recently

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[incrediBILL]

Um, I never said it got access to my site ;)

If I post it here, it hit my bot trap and was logged, otherwise I don't know it exists.

[GaryK]

I've never seen anything good from LAYERD so I've got their entire net range banned in my firewall.