Seen in my Apache access log today, the weirdest user-agent string in the world:
"wnty w1gNNqlvdbibdnvcNcpmnqwfbfisgol1l"
There's only the one hit (for /help.php). Google doesn't seem to know anything at all, so I'm clueless but curious.
Strangest user-agent I’ve ever seen
Mon, 17 Jan 2005
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jl says:
Take a look at: this
ptt says:
http://www.chrispederick.com/work/firefox/useragentswitcher/this
yes, http://www.google.com/search?q=~logs+space-bison
and
about:config
hello from
User Agent Googlebot/2.1 (+http://www.googlebot.com/bot.html)
App Name ShonenScape
App Version 2.1
Platform Win32
Vendor
Vendor Sub
need to snuff that Platform
Meanwhile, i want to try this
http://chrispederick.com/work/firefox/webdeveloper/
in one of my profiles.
hmm, your annotate spellchecker doesn't 'recognize' "firefox"
Laurabelle says:
Oh, and there's nothing I can do about the speelchucker either. Can't add words or anything, because it's not my server. I figure it's at least slightly better than nothing.
ptt says:
hey! >:-[
:-)
Laurabelle says:
Yeah, sorry. My Bayesian filter's kind of dumb. Don't feel bad though; it thinks my comments are just as spammy as everyone else's. I guess I don't have enough spam to feed it.
Its inaccuracy is why I changed it from completely hiding posts to just removing HTML (making link-spam useless). Still, I find it's better than nothing.
ptt, presumptuous mad nonspammer says:
i've seen urls in blog-spam "text format".
http://www.google.com/search?q=cas__o+"f_ee+o_li_e+po_er"++comments+|+permalink
{to read that, insert: "in" "r" "n" "n" "k" where i used underscore char.}
from that search, this funny example. one of those "commerce" uber-alles cons gets spammed:
http://polipundit.com/wp-comments-popup.php?p=2496&c=1
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i think the spammers are satisfied if they think the "text format" of their url's are "readable". i assume the spammers do this in order to cram search engines. Major Disclaimer: I have never researched the SEO thing.
Laurabelle says:
I'm surprised those spams are still there. I always delete them as soon as I find them. Obviously someone isn't paying attention.
Most of the spammers I've seen don't actually put the URL in text of their spam but instead use other text as a link. In this case, stripping the HTML is quite effective in preventing them from getting any benefit at all from attempting to spam me.
Stewart says:
My guess is that many of these weird user-agent strings come from either random home-made programs or browsers that let you put whatever you want as the UA.