[thelist] "Microsoft URL Control" showing up in user-agent logs ?

Massimo Mezzini webmaster at menouno.com
Sat Jun 15 09:41:00 CDT 2002


On 15 Jun 2002 at 9:16, rudy wrote about Re: [thelist] "Microsoft URL Control:

> > Microsoft URL Control - 5.01.4319

> according to http://www.psychedelix.com/agents.html it's a spambot
> looking for formmail components

it sure is some kind of bot but looking for formail doesn't seem its main task. Out of
436 instances on one of my logs for May, Microsoft URL Control only 5 times
requested formail.pl or .cgi.

All the other requests are for normal pages, even CSS files. No regular pattern here.

ciao


Massimo



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