NYU Internet Census

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[SumGuy]

I searched webmasterworld for "Internet Census" but nothing came up.

Got a bunch of malicious scans for files I don't have (php and other files) from these:

NYU Internet Census ([e-mail])

NYU Internet Census (https://scan.lol; [e-mail])

I looked back through my logs and have never seen those before. They just started yesterday and continued today, from IP 5.188.203.0/24 and 5.188.9.0/24. I was already blocking both of those. Do you guys keep track of user-agents from Russian IP's?

[keyplyr]

Again, please post using this format:

UA:
Protocol: HTTP/1.1
Robots.txt:
Host:

Looks to be just someone running a script for whatever purpose. Not a legit bot and likely not associated to NYU (New York University) since the IP address is on an RU server.

Do you guys keep track of user-agents from Russian IP's?

You guys?

I invite you to read through the posts in the various threads in this forum to acquaint yourself of what is appropriate.

[lucy24]

@scan.lol

Is “lol” an actual tld? The mind boggles, but the alternative is worse.

[dstiles]

LOL is a TLD. Sorry. In fact, the current list of so-called TLDs is vast (more than 1500 including traditional ones) and in many cases pointless apart from making money and spamming.

[jonasjacek]

Today, I received a message from WNYU, that this crawler is not theirs...
<snip>

W00t?

[edited by: keyplyr at 7:18 pm (utc) on Apr 26, 2018]
[edit reason] removed SM link [/edit]

[lucy24]

It would admittedly be unnerving if NYU were using IPs in Russia. I mean, why would they?

[keyplyr]

It would admittedly be unnerving if NYU were using IPs in Russia.

There's probably an independent investigation about that.