Trapped and Banned Robots

The following robots have either been trapped by the the robot trap or behaved unreasonably according to the access logs of this server. This page shows robots trapped after May 1999.

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Name misuse of robots.txt ignores robots.txt gathers email addresses heavy load on server reads cgi scripts useless banned
imagelock ? o  - o  o  o  host
cyveillance - o  - - o  o  host
205.227.165.* - - ? o  o  o  host
216.32.64.10 - o  ? - - ? host
Microsoft URL Control - o  ? - - ? robot

Description:

The imagelock.com company

This company offers the service to find illegal copies of images and text files that have been stolen from a website. To do this they regularly try to find all images stored on the web. They sell this service and therefore make money from accessing my site without actually giving back anything. As their robot also reads cgi scripts and traveresses the site as fast as possible all accesses from the imagelock servers (using IP numbers 209.133.111.*) have been banned.

The cyveillance.com company

This company offers the same service as imagelock.com, plus has programs that scans newsgroups and chat rooms for "bad" comments about a company. They sell this service and therefore make money from accessing my site without actually giving back anything. As their robot also reads cgi scripts all accesses from the imagelock servers (using IP numbers 207.87.178.6.*) have been banned.

The 205.227.165.* Robot

I was not able to figure out why this robot was indexing my site. It did it with an amazing speed (450 hits in 50 seconds) and accessed lots of cgi scripts not meant for robots. All accesses from the IP number 205.227.165.* have been blocked.

The Microsoft URL Control Robot

This robot seems to be used by different sites. At least some of them ignore the robots.txt file, and consequently this robot has been banned from this site.