What really is doing PC Media Center ?

[schnee]

Hi,

I have robot traps in my sites, with hidden links that only bots can find. If a visitor fails into it, he may be blocked, but he has a chance to email complaint about it.

In may be all instances, the visitor's browser has the string "Media Center PC 5.0" in his agent.

What the heck is this, what is it looking for and why is it visiting robot traps ?

[dstiles]

Isn't it just a part of the MSIE plethora of UA inserts?

If a "real" MSIE UA is hitting your bot traps then it's time to look at things such as headers, querystrings, referers. There are a lot of sql injection attempts around at the moment, as well as a lot of scrapers masquerading as browsers.

[schnee]

Yes, I'm pretty sure its a real human visitor, even one registered in the intranet by login, the rest of the requests are normal and justified.
It is just that the browser makes requests for links hidden in some non displayed div, so I suspect they are made by this add-on Media Player.

[GaryK]

Doesn't Media Center x.* get appended to the UA when you're using MSIE running under Windows Media Center Edition, one of the many flavors of XP?

[schnee]

Probabily. So there would be some other reason the user browser is visiting hidden pages. Some obscur malware from some "toolbar".