New MSN Search DOS

Many of you may know about the new attempt by Microsoft at a search engine (http://beta.search.news.com) to compete. Besides the fact that it’s obviously a ripoff of this other popular search engine with some eye candy added in, this thing is truly irritating me.

2004-11-09 15:17:56 sync.X-1.0.tar.gz 207.46.98.33
2004-11-09 14:25:37 permit-1.0.tar.gz 207.46.98.33
2004-11-09 10:32:15 cdp-1.0.tar.gz 207.46.98.33
2004-11-09 06:25:07 sync.X-1.0.tar.gz 207.46.98.33
2004-11-09 06:19:18 permit-1.0.tar.gz 207.46.98.33
2004-11-09 02:51:34 cdp-1.0.tar.gz 207.46.98.33
2004-11-09 02:46:07 cdp-1.0.tar.gz 207.46.98.33
2004-11-09 02:35:36 MultiplyWithMFC-1.0_src.zip 66.249.64.199
2004-11-09 00:55:05 sync.X-1.0.tar.gz 207.46.98.33
2004-11-09 00:12:03 permit-1.0.tar.gz 207.46.98.33
2004-11-09 00:10:57 permit-1.0.tar.gz 207.46.98.33
2004-11-09 00:05:21 sync.X-1.0.tar.gz 207.46.98.33
2004-11-08 21:03:10 permit-1.0.tar.gz 207.46.98.33

Note that 207.46.98.33 is registered to Microsoft so lets assume it’s the msn bot. Notice that the damn thing blindly keeps on downloading the same file! The requests are just a few minutes from each other. The of ther ip address is from google’s bot. This can be dangerous for those of us who have transfer caps if we don’t take the precautions of limiting the bot’s requests using robots.txt or through other more secure means.

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  1. db says:
    April 15, 2005 at 4:36 pm

    Block MSN at the server. Who needs MS, really?

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