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?
so I guess Microsoft got into hacking lol I think you should trust this though. They probably changed their technologies.