Microsoft MSN SocialStreams Bot

[keyplyr]

IP address: 74.208.47.***
rDNS: u15331153.onlinehome-server.com
WHOIS: 1&1 Internet Hosting
robots.txt: yes

Clearly a hoax, although I believe it's crawling links from social streams.

[Pfui]

I've yet to see the hoax UA but FWIW, onlinehome-server.com is always blocked on all of my sites. Over the years, I've never once had a single person e-mail for info/access.

[keyplyr]

Actually, I've had 2 other IPs from this range attempting image file hit'n runs lately and although they were 403 due to blank UA, I was looking for a reason to block the entire range on principle :)

deny from 74.208.0.0/16

I worked on a site hosted at 1&1 once. That is one cheapo hosting biz.

[Pfui]

It's also a.k.a. oneandone.com, 1and1.com, 1und1.com, etc., etc., etc.

[Pfui]

gig4-2.tuk2f-gsr-a.us.msn.net
Microsoft MSN SocialStreams Bot

robots.txt? Yes

[keyplyr]

So I gather gig4-2.tuk2f-gsr-a.us.msn.net (207.68.164.7) is the authentic MSN bot. Now the question is - what is doing with the collected data?