I found another application referrer spamming me today.

grub crawler

If you google for the term, you’ll find references to LookSmart and WiseNut. A search engine spider, in other words. And yes, I’ve had visits from something a bit like that.

But this one is different. It looks to me like it’s supposed to look like a search engine spider, but that it’s actually a referrer spammer script.

IPs:
206.113.170.129
storm.fyrehost.com

The website referrer spammed is pisoc.com
I’ve seen on other sites that they think it’s a search engine crawler. I don’t. The results when I searched their so called search engine were Alexa results.

The other domain name was for a free sms sending service, and right now it’s got a 302 to Google.

I’ve only had two IP numbers hit the site with two hits each. One is for robots.txt, the other for the blog.

Same owner of both domains:
(name redacted. The guy whose name was on it e-mailed me March 27th 2007 and said the whois info was fake. He threatened to sue. He’ll need to get in touch with the registrar of pisoc.com then - GoDaddy, because the information is still on there. I sincerely doubt he’ll get any whois change from a spammer, but I guess we’ll find out over time. I checked the domain again, and right now it’s parked on SEDO, which means the domain is for sale, and there’s no more spamming anymore. But he might get it thrown out by the registrar because the whois info is invalid).

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The REAL grub crawler has a user agent about like this:
Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; grub-client-2.3)

And it’s dumb, dumb, dumb!

It keeps crawling my site for pages on another domain. Annelisabeth.com used to reside on another server, on the same IP number as another site I own. It was possible to access both sites with the other site’s domain name. I had some problem with search engines spidering with the wrong domain name, but figured that problem would disappear after they realized annelisabeth.com delivered 404’s for those pages. Having two domain’s stacked like that is stupid, but was cheaper at the time. So far the real grub client hasn’t crawled my site for even ONE of my actual pages, but keeps trying for nonexistent files, even trying to guess URL’s based on the structure of that old location. Not getting even CLOSE to the real structure, though!

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