Friday, August 31, 2007
Microsoft URL Control 6.00.8862 ?
Friday, August 31, 2007
I was taking a leisurely stroll through my Urchin 5 webstats and I wanted to see what browsers people were using. I checked Browsers By Sessions and after Firefox (yay!) I saw "Microsoft URL Control 6.00.8862" @ 9%. Hmm, wtf is that. So after googling a bit I saw some conflicting reports on this thing, but it seems like it could be a spider looking for email scripts, etc. I put in a web ticket to ask (mt) about it and whether it could be blocked or not. Is someone using my scripts to send their emails? etc. I just don't what this is or how to block it on my own. Anyone have any insight, has this appeared in your logs?
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Claus Wahlers said...“1. Look up what IP ranges hammer your site with "Microsoft URL Control". In my case that was 80.253.80.* and 80.253.81.*
2. Put a .htaccess file in your web root:
order allow,deny
deny from 80.253.80
deny from 80.253.81
allow from all”