Why so many foreign hits?

Why is my unpublished site getting flooded with foreign IP hits?

[rrc124]

I operate a simple, US based/English written website. It was recently made public, and as of yet is on the bottom of every search engine ranking, if it's even listed at all.

When I resolve the IP's of people who visit the site, almost all of them are from Asia. China, Taiwan, Malaysia , Korea, even Bosnia and Herzegovina. All but one of the China hits do not have a USER AGENT that my PHP can detect..

What's going on? How do they even know of this site? Why would so many of them visit it? Thank you!

[waziwazo]

If there is no user agent, these should be bots

Most bots usualy came from USA and a few from Europe, nearly never from Asia except a very few from Japan.

Lots of computers in Asia are infected with trojan and used as zombie for mail spam. They could also scan web pages for new E-Mail adress.

If you have a lots of E-Mail adress on your website you should take care to protect it from these bots.

[rrc124]

Thank you. I saw that MSN, Yahoo, and Google search bots all identify themselves in the User Agent.. which is why I didn't think these were search bots.

Trojans makes sense to me. Thanks for the advice on the e-mails