University of Michigan Cellular and Molecular Biology graduate student.

Spambot watch: LARBIN-EXPERIMENTAL

25 Mar 2003

I noticed in my referrer logs for this week that twenty-five percent of my web traffic went to a bot called “LARBIN-EXPERIMENTAL efp@gmx.net Mozilla/4.0.” It indexed my web site in 1 second intervals which is very fast compared to Google, which peaks at 3 second intervals when its cluster of 10,000 servers doesn’t schedule the indexing well. The IP information for this potential Spambot is 66.230.140.66 (argon.oxeo.com) in case you want to block it. I highly suggest it and I’m going to report it to my hosting provider.

3 comments

Jon (19 Apr 2003)

My site got caned by it too.

anonybloke (25 May 2003)

yes, it’s still going. hit me today.

lavinia (27 May 2003)

hey i have been botted twice within 24 hrs …..with this thing and LARBIN-EXPERIMENTAL efp@gmx.net any suggetsions ?