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If You're Gonna Spoof . At Least Get It Right

A Bit of Humor From the Logs

         

TheMadScientist

4:50 pm on Jan 19, 2010 (gmt 0)

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Okay, if you're a spammer or scraper and you're going to spoof your user-agent as MSIE 6 or MSIE 7 and can't make up your mind on which to use, IMO this is NOT an acceptable alternative:

Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; GTB6; Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1) ; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.50727)

LMAO.

dstiles

10:09 pm on Jan 19, 2010 (gmt 0)

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I've seen that fairly often. I'm not sure it's (always) a baddie. I generally put it down to a poor quality UA update, since the performance does not usually show abusive tendencies.

In the case of yours, though, I would be more inclined to suspect the GTB6 part. Not sure this is really a valid GTB identifier?