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Robot: AdtuitionBot Abuse Notice

Posted by falconinternet, 03-25-2009, 04:51 PM

One of the sites I help run has 1.5 million pages of parts that can be ordered and information about those parts. We started seeing a ton of hits at around 20-30 pages per second over the past couple days. There is no information about them on the internet and they are also masking as GoogleBot. Be on the lookout as I am pretty sure they are trying to steal content and post it up for search results. They are using Amazon EC2 servers to do it also. This is how they are identifying themselves: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Adtuitionbot/1.0; +http://www.google.com/bot.html)" Offending IPs: 174.129.155.59, 72.44.52.93 In a 24 hour period, we blocked 408,821 requests from them.

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