obot
Web site: None provided
Description:
The oBot bot seems to come from Germany. The IP addresses below show German addresses. The IP addresses within the IP block 194.153.113.0 - 194.153.113.255 belong to IBM Deutschland. Even though IBM is a well known and respected company the userAgent doesn't give any further details about the purpose of the crawls.
My rule of thumb is to deny access if I can't find any further information. Our security application will still record the visits and I might find further information which make me change my mind. I only can assume a "hostile" intention if a bot doesn't provide sufficent information about the purpose.
User Agent strings:
- Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows NT 4.0; obot)
- oBot
IP addresses using obot:
194.153.113.18, 194.153.113.8, 195.127.173.169, 195.127.173.170, 194.153.113.7, 195.127.173.169, 195.127.173.170, 195.127.173.171, 195.127.173.172
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