Seeing a Strange Microsoft Spider?

Discussion in 'Bing' started by Corwin, Sep 21, 2009.

  1. #1
    I recently started blocking bad bots from my biggest website. When I first started two weeks ago, I was seeing over 200 bot and hack attempts a day! Now, that is down to only 20. One unusual bot I'm seeing is called WinHttp. From my logs:

    IP ADDRESS: 65.55.220.83 at msnbot-65-55-220-83.search.msn.com
    HTTP_USER_AGENT: WinHttp
    REFERER: (noReferrer)


    It's the WinHrtp that has me confused. Microsoft would either use their msnbot, or a phony and full user agent to test for cloaking, right? WinHttp seems a little suspicious to me.

    Sure, the reverse-DNS resolves to search.msn.com, but that could be a forged IP?

    Can anyone tell me what this is? Does anyone thing this is a valid msn search bot, or is this something forged?
     
    Corwin, Sep 21, 2009 IP
  2. sharpie349

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    so I guess Microsoft got into hacking :D lol
    I think you should trust this though. They probably changed their technologies.
     
    sharpie349, Sep 22, 2009 IP