After checking the "details" area of "Who's Online," it appears clear that this program was developed with the intention of allowing "Search Spiders" so this must be a good-thing; especially since we can see them when they arrive and see which screens they're looking at. I suppose if they are the "good-spiders," it will also be reported to the appropriate search engines. I'm not really sure.

So, it must've been intentionally programmed into ubbthreads community so that the owners, admins, moderators and users can all see this too. This must be okay. Afterall, it's on this website of forums too! smile

I think the search spiders are not harmful to us; otherwise, why would they be here also.

Are there good search spiders and bad search spiders?

Can they get into my control panel? Thanks,


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