Thursday, September 07, 2006

More Evolving Scrapers

Like I've been reporting, they're all going stealth.

I keep seeing user agent change from this:
62.163.33.234 "Java/1.4.1_04"
To this:
62.163.33.234 "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows 98)"
Soon the usual blocking methods won't work whatsoever.

Wake up and smell the COPY before it's too late!
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4 comments:

  1. Anonymous9/08/2006 6:20 AM

    Bill, watch out, this German dude is a comment spammer:
    Chris' traces in Google
    I guess I should have a talk with his German blog host in regard to his advertising campaign :-)

    And to Chris:
    Nur ein gehirnamputierter Volltrottel spammt so offensichtlich für sein Blog. Bin gespannt, was Blogiggo dazu meinen werden, wenn ich sie nachher anschreibe. :-)

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  2. IncrediBILL9/08/2006 1:02 PM

    Yup, I figured he was, but it's about the least obnoxious spam I've seen in a long time.

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  3. Anonymous9/08/2006 2:48 PM

    Sure, his spam lacks the commercial aspect (no Adsense on his spamvertised blog) and from that may appear somewhat pointless ;-)

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  4. Anonymous9/18/2006 12:58 AM

    hi bill

    they are crafty mo fo's.

    I looked at crawlwall, nice idea :)

    love the challenge question thing...

    thumps up dude.

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