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B3y0nd · #1 09-19-2006, 01:00 AM

I have a pretty young forum that has a little over 100 members. I get, at the most, up to 7-8 guests at a time just browsing.

I just looked at my 'Who's Online' and I have over 80 guests with various IPs mostly reading the same thread. Are these some kind of bots? Should I be worried about it?

There should not be ANY way that that many guests would come on my boards all at once. I've done very little advertising.

Any info would be greatly appreciated.

Sorry for the n00b questions. :cross-eyed:

Code Monkey · #2 09-19-2006, 01:06 AM

Post 12 of this thread.

http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showt...hlight=spiders

B3y0nd · #3 09-19-2006, 01:09 AM

Thanks! I figured they were some kind of spider/bot but I thought they should all have similar IPs.

Thanks for the quick reply, Code Monkey. You da man!

Code Monkey · #4 09-19-2006, 01:12 AM

You can replace your spiderlist xml with the one they have accumulated and it will identify far more spiders than you have now. I try to keep up to date with that list. Saves a lot of time wondering.

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