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Guest???

Postby Kotik » Wed Feb 08, 2012 10:38 pm

For at least a month now there seems to be an unusually high number of guest users, in fact over the last two weeks I've never seen the number fall below five. Could someone please have a look at the access log? Considering that traffic on our site is rather moderate, such a constantly high number of guest-accesses makes it probable that we're being sniffed out by bots.
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Re: Guest???

Postby Distracted » Sat Feb 11, 2012 3:10 am

Sorry, dear. Dunno how to do that. :dunno:
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Re: Guest???

Postby Kotik » Sat Feb 11, 2012 5:17 am

Distracted wrote:Sorry, dear. Dunno how to do that. :dunno:


I don't think you can do that. That's a job for one of the guys, who run the web servers. It is rather unusual to have 5-10 guests constantly at any time of the day. :?
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Re: Guest???

Postby Alelou » Sat Feb 11, 2012 1:58 pm

Are all bots such awful things? I sometimes have TS forum posts come up in google searches, and I would consider that a plus for us. (Of course, these days google is probably also creepily aware of my tendencies to show up at this site and tailoring its results accordingly.)
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Re: Guest???

Postby Kotik » Sat Feb 11, 2012 5:31 pm

Google and Bing, the two biggest search engines are visible as registered users. Bots showing up as guest users are most likely here trying to harvest email adresses, links and other informations.
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Re: Guest???

Postby Alelou » Sat Feb 11, 2012 9:23 pm

Ah. Okay.
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Re: Guest???

Postby Kevin Thomas Riley » Mon Feb 27, 2012 11:47 pm

As of now (Feb 28th, 0045 hours CET) there are "6 registered, 1 hidden and 30 guests" here!

30 guests! :shock: :wtf:
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