Aboundex/0.2
seems to be a new one here is the full thing Aboundex/0.2 (http://www.aboundex.com/crawler/)
ip is 173.193.219.168-static.reverse.softlayer.com
I have checked the ip and it has come back that a spam bot is using it

If someone wants to run checks see if it needs added to the list. I am not 100% sure if it is this is why it needs checked first

Yeah I used htaccess to ban them completely. I need to find out exactly what IPs I can band and still allow facebook to work properly when I post links to articles or posts...sigh...lol

But hanks for understanding and helping out, it is very much appreciated Simon

In my experience, that's the only time the FB external hit bot comes to your site - when you or someone else posts a link to your site, on facebook. It's your friend. Same with twitterbot and all of its affiliates. I don't mess with those at all.

Max it's weird because I have the facebook like buttons off on my forums. I do have rssgraffiti but I don't see why that would be hitting pages like the mood and status module and other unrelated pages.

Some autospam bots do spoof their user agents as facebook or even googlebot.

Great! now you tell me ! lol...Thanks again Max I will have to take a careful look at the IPs and try to see if they match facebooks then.

From what I've seen over the years facebook's bots have good behavior and only come to see you when something is posted there, from your site. Then they don't crawl around and they SURE don't go anywhere suspicious.

Yeah, nothing suspicious about facebook's crawlers, scrapers or bots , what ever they are. But it has caused my forums to pop the 500 internal server error a bunch of times , I check around the time those errors happen and are reported to me and its facebook's ips around the times of the 500 errors.

Well I decided to completely deny Facebook crawlers, scrapers, spiders or bots to crawl my site.

I deleted all their active sessions from my database through phpMyAdmin and added "facebook" to the list and I haven't gotten one single facebook critter on my site since.

Sucks because I can no longer share anything on facebook from my forums but I just had to do it. Facebook wont reply and doesn't seem to care about eating up bandwidth with their crawlers.

Oh well.

a wise choice if that's happening to you, as they will eat up your bandwidth