From owner-freebsd-isp Sat Oct 13 22:35:47 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from femail4.sdc1.sfba.home.com (femail4.sdc1.sfba.home.com [24.0.95.84]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C160137B40D for ; Sat, 13 Oct 2001 22:35:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from veager.jwweeks.com ([65.14.122.116]) by femail4.sdc1.sfba.home.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.20 201-229-121-120-20010223) with ESMTP id <20011014053545.YKEC8041.femail4.sdc1.sfba.home.com@veager.jwweeks.com> for ; Sat, 13 Oct 2001 22:35:45 -0700 Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2001 01:35:43 -0400 (EDT) From: Jim Weeks X-Sender: jim@veager.jwweeks.com To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Being Used! Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I know this has nothing to do with FreeBSD, Just wondered if any others have experienced this. I notice quite a lot of user nobody perl activity on one of my servers, and set about to find where it was coming from. I quickly discovered that one of my virtual hosting clients was running "betsie-1.5.pl". This is a script developed by the BBC to convert normal (image filled) html documents to a more simple text based page. I don't have any problem with the concept, however I also discovered that it was being used to do all of the parsing work for a group of web robots owned by "googlebot.com". Any comments would be appreciated, -- Jim Weeks To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message