google tried to load ./hack.com

reason for trying hack.com within the site

[smallcompany]

Emails flooded my 404 inbox this evening.

66.249.85.*** tried to load example.com/subfolder/hoax.com which produced all images and other stuff to fail and cause separate 404s. Normally, my custom 404 works fine. I am yet to check why it failed this time.

User Agent = Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.12) Gecko/20080201 Firefox/2.0.0.12

IP belongs to Google.

Why would they try to load such thing?

In addition, about an hour later, same IP has requested .../noexist_#*$!#*$!#*$!#*$!#*$!#*$!.html (some scrambled numbers and letters were in place of Xs)

while the identification came out as User Agent = Google-Sitemaps/1.0

Is this something known?

[edited by: volatilegx at 2:41 am (utc) on Feb. 21, 2008]
[edit reason] examplified url [/edit]

[Brett_Tabke]

do a backlink check and see if someone is spamming links pointed at you. Or if you have the addreaded "this site is harmful" moniker on google.

[wilderness]

while the identification came out as User Agent = Google-Sitemaps/1.0

Are your websites (or you) part of the Google Sitemap program?
[google.com...]

[zuko105]

Merely speculation here but, could be the toolbar beta 5 version enhancement looking for default server 404 pages.