Trend Micro AV May Be Causing Excess Traffic

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Trend Micro AV May Be Causing Excess Traffic

blend27

1:09 pm on May 14, 2008 (gmt 0)

System: The following message was cut out of thread at: http://www.webmasterworld.com/search_engine_spiders/3615360.htm [webmasterworld.com] by incredibill - 9:34 pm on May 15, 2008 (PST -8)

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I've seen workstations with "Trend Micro" AV to produce thouse. One of my friends had the thingy installed and while visiting one of my sites got banned for requesting too many pages, same pages at once with that UA.

But then again, this is the most popular SCRAPER Used UA that is out there after Java, Nutch and libwww-perl...

I will install the trial version and see if it is similar.

Blend27

Samizdata

9:25 pm on Jun 2, 2008 (gmt 0)

Since writing the sentence you quoted I started a new thread:

[webmasterworld.com...]

It was an attempt to deal with all the confusion surrounding the various anti-virus tools and it demonstrated a way to replicate the "SV1" string using the version of LinkScanner that existed before AVG bought it (and which is still available for download on CNET).

You seem to be the first person to positively identify "SV1" as AVG 8.0 - everyone else reports the "1813" user-agent - but I did wonder out loud in one of these confused threads how long it would be before they changed to something less obvious.

My tests say neither UA has anything to do with Trend Micro (the subject of this thread).

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