Unusual 404 requests

[milanmk]

I am getting many 404 errors from following IP's with very unusual file requests.

<specific IPs snipped>

/home/username/public_html/filename<span style='background-color:

Missing file extension and vague html added at the end.

/home/username/public_html/imagenamejpg

Missing dot (.) between image name and extension.

Do anyone experiencing the same problem?

Any idea how to stop this nuisance?

Milan

[edited by: physics at 7:07 pm (utc) on April 19, 2006]
[edit reason] Snipped specific IP addresses [/edit]

[physics]

It looks to me like a custom spider gone awry. You can block the IPs or block based on the user agent. Are you on Apache or IIS?

[milanmk]

Apache.

[physics]

Look into blocking by IP address or user agent with .htaccess in Apache.
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The lines will still show up in your logs though... You might have to process them out with a perl script :/

[milanmk]

I will try blocking those IP addresses and see what happens. Thanks physics.

Milan