I saw this in my logs today. I believe it's a site scraper. Is anyone familiar with this bot? Host: 212.96.80.9 /nintendo/gameboy/game_genie_codes/ Http Code: 200 Date: Aug 02 09:14:58 Http Version: HTTP/1.1 Size in Bytes: 26117 Referer: http://search.msn.fr/results.aspx?cp=1252&q=&q=mortal+kombat+game+boy+sprite+rips Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.0; Windows 98; DigExt) | | | /nintendo/gameboy/game_genie_codes/mortal_kombat.shtml Http Code: 200 Date: Aug 02 09:15:10 Http Version: HTTP/1.1 Size in Bytes: 7688 Referer: http://gamers.puck3d.net/nintendo/gameboy/game_genie_codes/ Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.0; Windows 98; DigExt) | | | /nintendo/gameboy/sprite_rips Http Code: 404 Date: Aug 02 09:15:19 Http Version: HTTP/1.1 Size in Bytes: 7220 Referer: http://gamers.puck3d.net/nintendo/gameboy/game_genie_codes/mortal_kombat.shtml Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.0; Windows 98; DigExt) | | | /banners/Gamers-network.jpg Http Code: 200 Date: Aug 02 09:15:21 Http Version: HTTP/1.1 Size in Bytes: 5791 Referer: http://gamers.puck3d.net/nintendo/gameboy/sprite_rips Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.0; Windows 98; DigExt) Code (markup):
those kinds of bots go by keywords on a text list. they query the result, visit the first 10 sites that show up & copy around the 1st 300 or so characters. And I think that bot may be one of those. And I'm pretty certain that most search engine companys use windows 98..
omg! shut down the site tell your host to ban its IP adress and nevr answer your phone or use that host again!!!