suspicious activity on my website

Bartman

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• Dec 15, 2011

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i dont target brazil. my website is a .com and rarely gets any foreign visitors.
today, i noticed that several users from brazil came to my site within a sort time frame. the ip addresses are very similar.
for example,
1:36 pm 65.201.48.5
1:38 pm 65.201.48.9

I have like 20 of these. I haven't been spamming this site, so i dont think anybody is angry at me.
what's going on? I am just worried i am getting hacked or ddos attacked or something.

 

Last edited: Dec 15, 2011

jazzc

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Jan 27, 2009

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• Dec 15, 2011

• #2

Maybe a Brazilian chick that wants you to teach her Samba?

Joking aside, don't worry, probably a bot.

 

Bartman

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• #3

whats the point of these bots? what are they trying to accomplish?

 

lablinks

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• Dec 15, 2011

• #4

I get those all day from China, Brazil, Netherlands and all over the world. Bots.

 

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mark0v

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• Dec 15, 2011

• #5

it could be someone's scraper. if you were being ddos'd, you'd see alot more than 20 hits.

 

random227512

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• Dec 15, 2011

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Bartman said:

whats the point of these bots? what are they trying to accomplish?

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I would also like to know what "bots" actually do?.. (I am not trolling or joking btw) I genuinely would like to know.

 

jazzc

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Bartman said:

whats the point of these bots? what are they trying to accomplish?

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oOULTiMATE KhANOo said:

I would also like to know what "bots" actually do?.. (I am not trolling or joking btw) I genuinely would like to know.

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Apart from world domination there are many legit uses of harvesting the internet.

For example, Yahoo Site Explorer, Majestic Seo, Open Directory and all that, would not be possible without harvesting everything that moves

 

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mark0v

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oOULTiMATE KhANOo said:

I would also like to know what "bots" actually do?.. (I am not trolling or joking btw) I genuinely would like to know.

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well they have many different purposes but the most typical one is to index pages into a database, just like googlebot does.