Brand Affinity Tech

[wilderness]

Is anybody aware if they have some kinda plug-in or toolbar (maybe even malware), which would allow their bot to attempt to grab pages immediately (a second) following a legitimate visitor request?

Had one today and I've a few recorded from the past.

In the past, my solution was to deny the provider backbone (bot), however today, I denied the supposedly legitimate visitors IP as well (since they are the responsible party with and/or without their knowledge).

[dstiles]

Yes. What was the actual question? :)

There are a variety from a UK/China "site malware checker" to a slew of "accelerators" which try to read the whole website in a second in case their master wants one of the pages. UA? IP?

Brand name checkers are generally run from servers, which are usually blocked?

[wilderness]

Brand name checkers are generally run from servers, which are usually blocked?

The plagiarism bot ate a 403. I. e., attempted

The question was if Brand Infinity requests are duplicated in the same requests as authentic visitors, and I might add, coming from authentic SE refers (the authentic visitors that is).

[motorhaven]

It might be that those users have installed Brand Affinity's "Fantapper" plug-in.

[wilderness]

It might be that those users have installed Brand Affinity's "Fantapper" plug-in.

Many thanks. I'll continue adding users IP's to deny from when this happens again, and since they added the plug-in willingly.

Now this has be the ultimate activity.

They've had a company in place for a long while that collects fees from clients to prevent plagiarism.

Then they create a plug-in for social media encouraging users to download and plagiarize :)

[motorhaven]

Sort of like a programmer purposely creating buggy code and then charging the client to fix the bugs!