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David Chia wrote:
>
  [ stuff purged ] 
>
> My log shown M$ has done this at least since 1 Feb (earlier log had
> been purged) and still going on at about 3 days interval, hit rate is
> about 8 hits/sec while they are still at it. The remote hosts range
> from tide08 to tide26. If they are robots they must be quite dumb, not
> checking for robot.txt, using mutiple hits per sec and gobbling up lots
> of gif's and jpeg's as well. I've got lots of web content for them to
> get indigestion, i.e. heavy traffic private newsgroups inside htdocs :)

I didn't even think to check our *real* HTTP servers logs, and now I'm
a little more upset.  It looks like this 'robot' thing has seen to it
to download 2 of our most 'hit' pages, and taken *ANY* graphics that
were on them... now call me paranoid but didn't Billy boy say something
about copyrighting images and then selling them back to us ?!?  The
two pages that it 'decided' to download graphics from have images
that could (maybe) be considered to be copyright (and I'm going to now
have to email these guys and warn them) ... but there are a few pages
that it 'decided' to not even bother to download the graphics for...
this is just to weird, and sounds too much like '1984' for my liking :)

And just to reiterate my original post, as well as M$ scaning real HTTP
servers they seem to be trying to hunt out UNINDEXED HTTP servers by
doing IP 'scans' (we log all traffic to hosts port 80 that arn't our
public HTTP server, thus how I picked up on this to start with) - and
if thats true it's more scary than the above paragraph.

Scott "thinking he should copyright his images before M$ do" Weston. ;)

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