Hi Have over the last year or so been getting batches of hits from something calling itself Java1.x.x I have had a look on the web and other forums and there just is nothing about it anywhere. Any of you guys n gals got an idea what this thing is? P.S. User-agent: Java1.x.x Disallow: / in Robots.txt does not work ion it
If you are seeing many hits in a row - especially in a forum - it is either a spam bot looking for e-mail addresses or a scraper. Ban the IP in your .htaccess file. But be careful - if you are podcasting I think the call from iTunes looking for your updates is very similar - but - it will ask for a single url normally.
I get 10 – 20 visits a day from this “thing†from different IP’s always and different countries, so 1 scenario 1 bot changing IP’s 2 scenario there are a bunch of then, coming from DP .
To do a reality check, get the ip (resolve it if need be) and google search it for appearing on a page. When you see hits about it being banned - or references to it at project honey pot - ban the ip - well - I do anyway.