Site Abuse

[LittleBigMan]

Hi everyone

Not sure if this is the right place for this query, but I'm sure someone can offer some help.

I have recently had some low life visit one of my sites and repeatedly abuse the feature 'report dead link' Effectively, they have reported every link on the site as being dead (which they aren't). Clearly we are dealing with a child mentality here or a certified moron.

It results in a torrent of emails from my site which is irritating and time wasting. I would hope that it isn't a Namepros member, but rest assured, I will track them down. Hopefully you guys can help accellerate the process.

I have studied the stats for the site in question via my CPANEL and compared these to the times of the auto generated emails. It is conclusive in terms of the offending IP address. What I would like to know is how can I now pinpoint the culprit. I have used http://www.ripe.net/whois but this is inconclusive. If I cant pinpoint the individual, perhaps I can establish the ISP and get the ISP to deal with them.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Happy New Year to you all!

LBM

 

[RJ]

You could enter the IP address here and usually get a city:
http://www.geobytes.com/IpLocator.htm

Is there a chance it was a search engine spider?

 

[LittleBigMan]

Would that generate multiple reports against all of the links within the site categories RJ? It's certainly a new one on me. I'll run a check via your link nevertheless.

Thanks

LBM

 

[Qwert]

I did it on myself but it was a little off, by about an hours drive.

Well atleast it's not like the last one I tried that said I was in New South Whales, Australlia

 

[LittleBigMan]

So far, so good

Determined its Ardsley, New York I'll narrow it down from here.

Thanks for the useful link RJ

Regards

LBM

 

[RJ]

multiple requests to the same link? They shouldn't, but I suppose it's possible a spider could do that since they will follow any link that you don't expressly tell them not to. Send me the IP and maybe I can help you find out if that's the case.

 

[Sabre]

scary... it hit me bang on the head..

 

[Qwert]

Where are you Sabre? I think it's just going by the size of the city. I would be scared out of my mind if it said Lake Mary, Florida.

 

[RJ]

I found the culprit from the IP address you sent me -> it's Become.com crawling your site.

Info from them and instructions how to block em: http://www.become.com/webmasters.html

Search Google for exava bot or become.com bot and you'll find posts from other webmasters who have been hit by this agressive bot.

 

[Sabre]

Im from bristol UK.... its a big city... but appears to have got me :D

 

[Qwert]

Im from bristol UK.... its a big city... but appears to have got me :D

Yep, I thought you were in a city.

 

[LittleBigMan]

Cheers RJ

Thanks for the info and advice!

Much appreciated

lbm

 

[redhippo]

good work RJ....your are the net FBI here