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The client (e.g. browser or robot) sends its user-agent string in an HTTP header with every request to your server. For example, my browser sends "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1) Gecko/20090624 Firefox/3.5" -- indicating Firefox/3.5 on Windows XP, US English preferred.
It could mean something else, but since you didn't say where you saw this message, that's just a best guess.
Jim