Microsoft flooding sites with fake traffic
Coleman Kane
cokane at cokane.org
Thu Feb 21 09:15:06 EST 2008
Cole Tuininga wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-02-21 at 08:56 -0500, Kent Johnson wrote:
>
>> Except:
>> - The client acts like a browser, in that it fetches CSS and
>> JavaScript
>> files as well as the primary page, and the User-Agent seems to be MSIE 7:
>> "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.2; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)"
>>
>
> This *could* be explained by wanting to be able to display a thumbnail
> version of the website. Just a thought.
>
Just an aside:
It is extremely amusing to me that MSIE still identifies as "Mozilla/4.0"...
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Coleman Kane
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