4 comments to “YebolBot”

1. James wrote:
   24. June 2008 at 12:26 am :

   No… it appeared today in my access.log on my apache server, same entry info as you have.

2. Bernd wrote:
   29. July 2008 at 2:04 pm :

   We had this one today in out logs: YebolBot (compatible; Mozilla/5.0; MSIE 7.0; mailto:yeboltechnology@yahoogroups.com)

   unfortunately not ip and host identified.

3. tmaster wrote:
   12. August 2008 at 2:44 pm :

   The one I got was running on amazon hosting system which I ban because of all the bots running on it.

   Agent: yebolbot (compatible; mozilla/5.0; msie 7.0; mailto:yeboltechnology@yahoogroups.com)
   67.202.28.152 ec2-67-202-28-152.compute-1.amazonaws.com

4. Spidermaster wrote:
   28. October 2008 at 8:03 am :

   First observed this dubious bot on 18 August 2008 with user agent string “YebolBot (Email: yebolbot@gmail.com; If the web crawling affects your web service_ or you don’t like to be crawled by us_ please email us. We’ll stop crawling immediately.)”. Since it was unknown, it was blocked. Accessed site three times during the day at seven- to eight-hour intervals, first two times using IP 75.101.197.88 (Amazon hosting), then using IP 67.202.33.46 (also Amazon hosting). Because this bot does not properly identify itself (no originating website) and uses so many different user agent strings (as per above comments) plus widely differing IP addresses (despite being on the same hosting group), I consider it to be a “bad bot” and recommend that it be banned.

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