UA: Mozilla/%2F4.0 Protocol: HTTP/1.1 Robots.txt: No Host: Microsoft Corporation (MSFT) 40.64.0.0 - 40.127.255.255 40.64.0.0/10
I've also seen the bingbot UA using these ranges.
lucy24
9:14 pm on Jul 6, 2018 (gmt 0)
Does it really say /%2F like that? Hahahahaha. (%2F is the / character.) I love it when something gets garbled in transit, and the botrunner doesn't even notice.
Dimitri
9:38 pm on Jul 6, 2018 (gmt 0)
I often see bots using user agent with character encode errors, or typo, things like that. Faking a User Agent, isn't that hard :)
keyplyr
10:02 pm on Jul 6, 2018 (gmt 0)
This agent scraped 6k files off my client's site where there isn't much defensive measures in place.
tangor
5:21 am on Jul 7, 2018 (gmt 0)
Sounds like a new task for Super Webmasterman! (Minor envy ... I get this from time to time from clients that run on tight budgets and reap unhappy results therefore--and I get an extended contract to clear that error in planning/paying!).
keyplyr
9:49 am on Jul 7, 2018 (gmt 0)
I never set up security on any client's site. It would take consistent maintenance and I don't have the time.
Not one of my clients has ever understood how security affects their bottom line anyway. But these are the same people who come running when their digital property gets plagerized, or their entire site gets hijacked, or they abruptly loose their ranking in the SERP replaced by a 3rd world site with the same content.
Try and show them 70% of their traffic is bots and they'll become defensive and deny it's true.
