Wget 1.9

Are they going to hack me?

[ezyid]

Hello all,

Rcently my pageviews have jumped dramatically!

And they are all coming from a bot called “Wget 1.9”. From my research I have found that this is a free bot that is used to copy data and can potentially be used to harm my site.

Is there something I can do to block this bot?

The reason I am worried is because of the bots location:

10 Sep, 12:20:38 United States scratchy.cs.uga.edu1 Wget 1.9
10 Sep, 12:11:01 United States planetlab-3.CS.Princeton.EDU1 Wget 1.9
10 Sep, 12:07:48 United States 192.42.83.2511 Wget 1.9
10 Sep, 11:57:18 United States planetlab2.eecs.umich.edu1 Wget 1.9
10 Sep, 11:50:17 United States planetlab2.cs.purdue.edu1 Wget 1.9
10 Sep, 11:49:52 Switzerland planetlab2.unineuchatel.ch1 Wget 1.9
10 Sep, 11:46:52 United States planetlab-02.bu.edu1 Wget 1.9
10 Sep, 11:43:49 Italy planetlab1.cs.unibo.it1 Wget 1.9
10 Sep, 11:42:40 United States planet1.ecse.rpi.edu1 Wget 1.9
10 Sep, 11:21:29 United States scratchy.cs.uga.edu1 Wget 1.9
10 Sep, 11:19:55 United States plgmu2.gmu.edu1 Wget 1.9

[Lord Majestic]

wget is a Unix command line tool - typical use is to grab a page or two manually from a site rather than run browser and do Save As command there. Sounds like whoever wants to grab a couple of pages from your site come from .EDU domain - hardly the place for the most evil people out there - certainly not ever since Bill Gates dropped out of his Uni :)

[edited by: Lord_Majestic at 1:47 am (utc) on Sep. 10, 2007]

[reprint]

If you do a search for PlanetLab you will see whats going on.