GoGuidesSpamTracker

Is this spider legit?

[grandma genie]

Another new one on me. Didn't see it or its IP in a search.

74.168.226.n - - [01/Jul/2012:04:48:32 -0400] "GET /example HTTP/1.0" 301 249 "-" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; GoGuidesSpamTracker/1.1; http://www.goguides.org/spamtracker.html)"

robots.txt - no

Direct hit. Hit the home page only. It's a BellSouth IP. I have never submitted my site to GoGuides. Not sure what to do with this one. Has anyone seen this spider in your logs lately? Is it legit?

[edited by: incrediBILL at 1:03 am (utc) on Jul 6, 2012]
[edit reason] fixed link in user agent [/edit]

[incrediBILL]

if you check the IP for www.goguides.org it's the same as what hit your site so it's probably them.

I'd say it's legit.

[wilderness]

A decade ago there was a spider that used to crawl sites until a located a 404, then an automated spam email would be sent hawking their website services.

The org had name of something like days and weeks or hours. For some reason 24/7 keeps haunting me. I know I've some reference saved, however was unable to easily locate and was not willing to spend a lot time on subch nonsense.

Eventually the creator found a buyer for his spider and company and the email spam and spidering stopped.