Search Robot MSN

daol20 · 05-24-2004, 05:25 AM

I just looked at the active members list and theres 2 guests and 2 members. Myself and one anonymous, but of the two guests, there is one that says under "operating system" - "Search Robot MSN" it also says its active for the past 31 mins.<BR style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; COLOR: rgb(0,0,255)"><BR style="COLOR: rgb(0,0,255)">Anyone noticed this before???

I wonder is that some email scanning robot or something else malicious.... Damn Microsoft and their spyware!

edit: Christ my typing is terrible!! Just read over that message and the amount of typo's! Im getting worse!Edited by: daol20

Angela · 05-24-2004, 02:30 PM

Those are the indexing robots for search engines. This one being the MSN one. I've seen the google one about on another board I'm a mod on. Nothing to worry.

Uno- X · 05-24-2004, 02:32 PM

gosh angela ur an it genius aren't ye?

Angela · 05-24-2004, 02:54 PM

I have a compsci degree [img]smileys/smiley2.gif[/img]

Uno- X · 05-24-2004, 02:54 PM

oh. that's why so smart.

daol20 · 05-25-2004, 08:15 PM

Cheers Angela.

I posted this the other morning when i was studying all night. I dont know why i even posted it, as i assumed that i was only a search engine. MSN wouldnt have their name on something malicious. They'd keep it well hidden. Or so my spykiller software suggests. The known spyware on hotmail and msn accountsdoesntcontain their name anyway.

daol20 · 05-25-2004, 08:18 PM

Think i was just in a weird paranoid "conspiracy theory" type of mood. Edited by: daol20

Angela · 05-25-2004, 08:29 PM

[img]smileys/smiley36.gif[/img]I know that mood!

I was spooked the first time I saw a robot, too. I thouht it was pretty brazen for a user to call himself "google bot" or whatever it was on a Jeff Buckley board.

Those bots have been around forever, of course, but when you have a web site or blog you never get to see them unless you look at the server stats. There are<noindex> and <nofollow> tags (or something like that) if you want to keep them away.

Donsie B! · 05-28-2004, 05:42 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by daol20

Think i was just in a weird paranoid "conspiracy theory" type of mood.

i'm always in dat kinda mood![img]smileys/smiley17.gif[/img]

Grandville · 05-28-2004, 05:48 PM

A few days ago I saw nearly twelve "Google bot's" on the active user's list... [img]smileys/smiley3.gif[/img]

Angela · 05-28-2004, 09:00 PM

They are ganging up on us [img]smileys/smiley29.gif[/img]They discovered we are writing so much they need more than one to index everything [img]smileys/smiley36.gif[/img]

05-24-2004, 05:25 AM	#1
daol20 Eskimo irRegular Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Southern Yemen Posts: 2,091	I just looked at the active members list and theres 2 guests and 2 members. Myself and one anonymous, but of the two guests, there is one that says under "operating system" - "Search Robot MSN" it also says its active for the past 31 mins.<BR style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; COLOR: rgb(0,0,255)"><BR style="COLOR: rgb(0,0,255)">Anyone noticed this before??? I wonder is that some email scanning robot or something else malicious.... Damn Microsoft and their spyware! edit: Christ my typing is terrible!! Just read over that message and the amount of typo's! Im getting worse!Edited by: daol20 __________________ You leave me here bereaving from the words so hard and plain Saying the love that we had was just selfish and sad To see you now with him is just making me mad Oh so kiss him again just to prove to me that you can an I will stand here and burn in my skin

05-24-2004, 02:32 PM	#3
Uno- X Eskimo CSI Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 14,495	gosh angela ur an it genius aren't ye? __________________ Do you realize that you have the most beautiful face? Do you realize we're floating in space?

05-24-2004, 02:54 PM	#5
Uno- X Eskimo CSI Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 14,495	oh. that's why so smart. __________________ Do you realize that you have the most beautiful face? Do you realize we're floating in space?

05-25-2004, 08:15 PM	#6
daol20 Eskimo irRegular Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Southern Yemen Posts: 2,091	Cheers Angela. I posted this the other morning when i was studying all night. I dont know why i even posted it, as i assumed that i was only a search engine. MSN wouldnt have their name on something malicious. They'd keep it well hidden. Or so my spykiller software suggests. The known spyware on hotmail and msn accountsdoesntcontain their name anyway. __________________ You leave me here bereaving from the words so hard and plain Saying the love that we had was just selfish and sad To see you now with him is just making me mad Oh so kiss him again just to prove to me that you can an I will stand here and burn in my skin

05-25-2004, 08:18 PM	#7
daol20 Eskimo irRegular Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Southern Yemen Posts: 2,091	Think i was just in a weird paranoid "conspiracy theory" type of mood. Edited by: daol20 __________________ You leave me here bereaving from the words so hard and plain Saying the love that we had was just selfish and sad To see you now with him is just making me mad Oh so kiss him again just to prove to me that you can an I will stand here and burn in my skin

05-24-2004, 02:30 PM	#2
Angela Eskimo Regular Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: cloud #9 Posts: 5,029	Those are the indexing robots for search engines. This one being the MSN one. I've seen the google one about on another board I'm a mod on. Nothing to worry.

05-25-2004, 08:29 PM	#8
Angela Eskimo Regular Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: cloud #9 Posts: 5,029	[img]smileys/smiley36.gif[/img]I know that mood! I was spooked the first time I saw a robot, too. I thouht it was pretty brazen for a user to call himself "google bot" or whatever it was on a Jeff Buckley board. Those bots have been around forever, of course, but when you have a web site or blog you never get to see them unless you look at the server stats. There are<noindex> and <nofollow> tags (or something like that) if you want to keep them away.

05-28-2004, 05:48 PM	#10
Grandville Eskimo Friend Join Date: May 2004 Location: Germany Posts: 66	A few days ago I saw nearly twelve "Google bot's" on the active user's list... [img]smileys/smiley3.gif[/img]

05-28-2004, 09:00 PM	#11
Angela Eskimo Regular Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: cloud #9 Posts: 5,029	They are ganging up on us [img]smileys/smiley29.gif[/img]They discovered we are writing so much they need more than one to index everything [img]smileys/smiley36.gif[/img]