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Bad Bot is google?

Bad bot scraping my site found in Google Cache

         

devil_dog

12:48 pm on Mar 18, 2009 (gmt 0)

10+ Year Member



I was recently getting a lot of requests from what appears to be a bad bot.

IP : 209.194.198.nnn
User Agent : vBot 0.1 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1)

Now if you google for the useragent (in quotes) you find a sites error page in the cache which outputs the useragent for debug. the cache page shows this user agent.

Logically it should be GoogleBot useragent there.

Anyways I went ahead and banned this IP (since it doesnt resolve to Google )

[edited by: incrediBILL at 7:04 pm (utc) on Mar. 18, 2009]
[edit reason] obscured IPs [/edit]

GaryK

2:00 am on Mar 19, 2009 (gmt 0)

WebmasterWorld Senior Member 10+ Year Member



I'm confused. Why do you think vBot should resolve to the host name for Googlebot? Or isn't that what you're saying?