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January 23, 2005
Stuff from old logs, and from today
I finally got around to checking my old logs. I've been assuming that our current spammer has been with us for months, so I expected to see the same outfit even months ago. After all, it was a persistent texas holdem spammer that caused me to abandon B2 because it lacked tools for monitoring comments.
I found some accesses I found weird. The referrer was:
http://12.163.72.13/
This was consistent during the last half of October 2004, and it tried accessing the B2 comment script (already removed). He was already using bots.
In fact, for those looking for those critters, there's a HUGE subculture scanning for and keeping track of them. Here's a forum you may want to check out. Please admins, check this out and tell me if you want to keep having open proxies on your servers?
I found a bot I hadn't noticed before. Going for my old comments script a few days too late. UA: Mozilla/8.0
Check this Webmasterworld discussion. However, I have heard of real Mozilla/8.0 browsers. I would think they'd have more details on the OS, though.
Posted by Ann at January 23, 2005 06:50 PM
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Posted by: Anonymous at January 23, 2005 06:50 PM