cipherkey.net linked to a wide variety of bad bots

DFAgent/DivineFlowersExplorer, FinancialAnalysisAgent, LegalX Deep Analyzer

[Pfui]

This just in:

70.70.240.2*
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; DFAgent/1.0; http://www.divineflowers.ca)

robots.txt? NO
Fake ref/log spam? YES, the UA's URL

Also similar UA:

zz2092059103*.cipherkey.net
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; DivineFlowersExplorer/1.0; http://www.divineflowers.ca)

robots.txt? NO
Fake ref/log spam? YES, the UA's URL

Also exact same IP:

70.70.240.2*
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; FinancialAnalysisAgent/1.0; http://www.ifsdb.com)

robots.txt? NO
Fake ref/log spam? YES, the UA's URL

Common denominator? cipherkey.net

For more about its many-named UAs, see: LegalX Deep Analyzer (née WideCircles Analysis Agent [webmasterworld.com]

[KenB]

Well, that is pretty spammy and as seems to always be the case with log spam they are coming from dynamic IP addresses, so it won't exactly be easy to block by those of us with more limited bot detecting abilities. :-(

[Pfui]

zz2092056517*.cipherkey.net
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; SMAnalysisAgent/1.0; http://www.smhelper.com)

robots.txt? NO
Fake ref/log spam? YES, the UA's URL

FWIW:

That UA's name is not static. A day earlier, it appeared thusly via another Host, also no robots, also log-spamming:

Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; SMAgent/1.0; http://www.smhelper.com)

[Pfui]

FYI: UA variation on a theme (was: LegalX Deep Analyzer yada-yada):

zz20920565171.cipherkey.net
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; LegalContentAnalysisAgent/3.0; http://www.legalx.net)

robots.txt? NO
Fake ref/log spam? YES, the UA's URL

See also the following (more variations: HealthAnalysisAgent and...):

ParchedAnalysisAgent
(distributed HTTP access/referer spammer)
[webmasterworld.com...]

[edited by: Ocean10000 at 11:41 pm (utc) on Jan. 10, 2010]
[edit reason] Requested Fix by Pfui [/edit]