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I normally review the referer logs at least once a day, and there is an odd trend that's started up just this last week. About every 2 hours I see a large amount of referers coming from Microsoft's Live Search. About 1 per minute, and they are all 1 word search terms.

I don't think these are actual users doing this search, so I'm not quite sure what the heck it is.

1 minute ago http://search.live.com/results.aspx?q=error&mrt=en-us&FORM=LIVSOP
2 minutes 51 seconds ago http://search.live.com/results.aspx?q=geoff&mrt=en-us&FORM=LIVSOP
3 minutes 21 seconds ago http://search.live.com/results.aspx?q=anonymous&mrt=en-us&FORM=LIVSOP
3 minutes 33 seconds ago http://search.live.com/results.aspx?q=ntdoc&mrt=en-us&FORM=LIVSOP
4 minutes 15 seconds ago http://search.live.com/results.aspx?q=threads&mrt=en-us&FORM=LIVSOP
4 minutes 24 seconds ago http://search.live.com/results.aspx?q=discussion&mrt=en-us&FORM=LIVSOP
4 minutes 55 seconds ago http://search.live.com/results.aspx?q=forums&mrt=en-us&FORM=LIVSOP
5 minutes 17 seconds ago http://search.live.com/results.aspx?q=board&mrt=en-us&FORM=LIVSOP
6 minutes 4 seconds ago http://search.live.com/results.aspx?q=gizmo&mrt=en-us&FORM=LIVSOP
9 minutes 53 seconds ago http://search.live.com/results.aspx?q=error&mrt=en-us&FORM=LIVSOP
10 minutes 14 seconds ago http://search.live.com/results.aspx?q=temptation&mrt=en-us&FORM=LIVSOP
11 minutes 17 seconds ago http://search.live.com/results.aspx?q=making&mrt=en-us&FORM=LIVSOP
11 minutes 42 seconds ago http://search.live.com/results.aspx?q=repeat&mrt=en-us&FORM=LIVSOP
11 minutes 47 seconds ago http://search.live.com/results.aspx?q=notabug&mrt=en-us&FORM=LIVSOP
11 minutes 49 seconds ago http://search.live.com/results.aspx?q=limits&mrt=en-us&FORM=LIVSOP
12 minutes 21 seconds ago http://search.live.com/results.aspx?q=latest&mrt=en-us&FORM=LIVSOP
16 minutes 3 seconds ago http://search.live.com/results.aspx?q=postgres&mrt=en-us&FORM=LIVSOP
18 minutes 21 seconds ago http://search.live.com/results.aspx?q=temptation&mrt=en-us&FORM=LIVSOP

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I don't usually check my logs, but I just checked right now and funnily enough, these are at the top of the list...

3 minutes 21 seconds ago http://search.live.com/results.aspx?q=geoff&mrt=en-us&FORM=LIVSOP
3 minutes 51 seconds ago http://search.live.com/results.aspx?q=geoff&mrt=en-us&FORM=LIVSOP
4 minutes 4 seconds ago http://search.live.com/results.aspx?q=medical&mrt=en-us&FORM=LIVSOP
6 minutes 40 seconds ago http://search.live.com/results.aspx?q=geoff&mrt=en-us&FORM=LIVSOP
40 minutes 29 seconds ago http://search.live.com/results.aspx?q=geoff&mrt=en-us&FORM=LIVSOP
Today at 06:22 PM http://search.live.com/results.aspx?q=geoff&mrt=en-us&FORM=LIVSOP

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So, it's not just here. That's strange. It's all one word searches, seems like some type of bot using their search, but who knows why.

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They are not all over my site. I bet it's all the anti MS posts here, lol

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After doing some research it turns out this is some sort of msn bot.

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Notice that most are abotu Geoff, and we have our own JGeoff wink... Then I'm there too... they love me :x


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Ok, so it's not a search spider. There's a good discussion going on this here

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I'm blocking these for now using an .htaccess since they all come from the same IP block and it's just filling up the referer logs with useless information.

<Limit GET>
order allow,deny
deny from 65.55.165.
allow from all
</Limit>

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I keep finding this one in my logs http://viagranwnc.blogspot.com. Don't know what vigra has to do with an animal nor do I wanna know :X

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rick is spamming the msn search engine wink


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