Bad BOTS!

[Rook Zimbabwe]

OK I have been seeing the BAIDU SPIDER BOT listed as being on this board. I had to BAN this bot form my website as it was fueling attempted breakins and SPAM...

http://web-robot-abuse.blogspot.com/200 ... tstxt.html

I wonder if someone in China hasn't created a fake version of Baidu and is using it to attempt to harvest data from PB???

[Rook Zimbabwe]

which might explain all the exceeded logons messages we see???

[TomS]

which might explain all the exceeded logons messages we see???

Only if the bot were to use the same IP or username.
Otherwise it woud be a massive bug in phpbb.

[Mohawk70]

I've noticed a lot of strange traffic coming from China @ wtfpotd.com lately also.
Ive banned the majority of IPs from China from accessing the site at all - with the
exception of some Static IP Addresses which belong to friends there.

See http://www.find-ip-address.org/ip-country/
for details on an easy way to do this !

[Nituvious]

You can also use this (chinese) service to look up locations rather quickly.

http://www.ip-look-up.com/IpInfoDetail-127.0.0.1.html

Just change the IP to whatever you want to look up.

http://www.ip-look-up.com/IpInfoDetail- ... 63.41.html