What's a "spider"?

[Aquarius]

Okay, down where it says who's online, I'm used to seeing bots, and I know they're no big deal.

But today, for the first time, I've seen something calling itself a "spider". What the heck is that, and do we need to be worried about it?

Thanks.

[mjimeyg]

An eight-legged arachnid.... KILL IT!

Ok, so it's a bit like a bot. Search engines like google use them to go through the web and make sure data is up to date.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_crawler

Nothing really to worry about unless you don't want our site cataloged. But there are fixes for that.

[Aquarius]

Thanks!

Just wanted to make sure because "spider" sounds less benign than a "bot."

[Kevin Thomas Riley]

Isn't Spider the nickname for the Lunar Module?