It scares me. Maybe you guys should make things private unless you're a member?
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It scares me. Maybe you guys should make things private unless you're a member?
AFAIK, the "guests" are crawler bots.Quote:
Originally Posted by -0- D i o r -0-
All 700 of them?
I like bots. They make me happy. (;
to bad there arnt that many good bots to use on differnt websites lolQuote:
Originally Posted by Ethan
Theoretically. They are always present, and forum statistics generally do not coincide with such a ratio of members to guests. I have no clue who is running them. Probably not all search engines, as I believe vBulletin distinguishes between search engine spiders as guests.Quote:
Originally Posted by -0- D i o r -0-
Yeah, it's kind of creepy to see that there's that many crawlers/requests to our website coming from unknown sources. They could be bots looking for exploits, email harvesters, or a number of things. Who knows o-o
They are probably either looking for exploits or what are causing the mail server spam.Quote:
Originally Posted by Flareboy323
I doubt they're harvesting data.