Wednesday, June 28, 2006

User Agent: "Microsoft Internet Explorer"

After seeing this user agent coming from Raytheon my curiosity got the best of me so I looked up any other occurances of this exact user agent and got the list below. None of them asked for more than a page or two, very rare occurances, and the requests originate from corporate proxies and dial-ups so I don't see any pattern to this yet.

03/07/2006 199.64.0.252 "Microsoft Internet Explorer"
04/05/2006 66.27.21.125 "Microsoft Internet Explorer"
05/04/2006 199.64.72.252 "Microsoft Internet Explorer"
05/31/2006 65.92.122.217 "Microsoft Internet Explorer/4.40.426 (Windows 95)"
06/11/2006 209.198.169.10 "Microsoft Internet Explorer"
06/28/2006 199.46.200.232 "Microsoft Internet Explorer"
Just keeping an eye on this one as well.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

No idea whether you're seeing the same "Microsoft Internet Explorer" useragent I did for a past employer, but the one I saw acted like a scraper.

Anonymous said...

We're seeing some odd activities w/ this also.

Our looks to be oriented towards an ad-popper or tracker.