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Guest???

Posted: Wed Feb 08, 2012 10:38 pm
by Kotik
For at least a month now there seems to be an unusually high number of guest users, in fact over the last two weeks I've never seen the number fall below five. Could someone please have a look at the access log? Considering that traffic on our site is rather moderate, such a constantly high number of guest-accesses makes it probable that we're being sniffed out by bots.

Re: Guest???

Posted: Sat Feb 11, 2012 3:10 am
by Distracted
Sorry, dear. Dunno how to do that. :dunno:

Re: Guest???

Posted: Sat Feb 11, 2012 5:17 am
by Kotik
Distracted wrote:Sorry, dear. Dunno how to do that. :dunno:


I don't think you can do that. That's a job for one of the guys, who run the web servers. It is rather unusual to have 5-10 guests constantly at any time of the day. :?

Re: Guest???

Posted: Sat Feb 11, 2012 1:58 pm
by Alelou
Are all bots such awful things? I sometimes have TS forum posts come up in google searches, and I would consider that a plus for us. (Of course, these days google is probably also creepily aware of my tendencies to show up at this site and tailoring its results accordingly.)

Re: Guest???

Posted: Sat Feb 11, 2012 5:31 pm
by Kotik
Google and Bing, the two biggest search engines are visible as registered users. Bots showing up as guest users are most likely here trying to harvest email adresses, links and other informations.

Re: Guest???

Posted: Sat Feb 11, 2012 9:23 pm
by Alelou
Ah. Okay.

Re: Guest???

Posted: Mon Feb 27, 2012 11:47 pm
by Kevin Thomas Riley
As of now (Feb 28th, 0045 hours CET) there are "6 registered, 1 hidden and 30 guests" here!

30 guests! :shock: :wtf: