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Bots .... the more ... the merrier?
Nope! Approx 2500 just showed up ... the forum becomes slooooow.
Does anyone else even know .... or care? And wtf are they up to? Enquiring minds .... meh :D |
Huh? How do you know? Was the list of logged on folks huge when you posted?
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I posted a thread some time back about "active users", and how it was artificially extremely high at times.... as that is something that I notice when I access the site via mobile view. I still see older threads revived by "suspicious users" outta the blue.... same old stuff.
This morning, when I first visited ... the total count was around 650 active users, and the site was "working fine" ... within a few minutes, the site became VERY sloooow, and not even responding. So I took another peek ... all of a sudden it had jumped to 3300 (abnormally high for ANY time of day). This is at 6:30 am EST ..... it's an "attack" and not by REAL users .... could be bots or just bogus "connections" ... I dunno. I only see the impact ... and it just cripples the site's performance. But old threads being revived appear to be bot-like.... I'll get over it :D edit: They are still here as of this post.... but latent imo. |
What are bots and what do they do?
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I rarely notice the active member count. But wow, 3300 is crazy. They are basically DoS the site (intentionally or not). |
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If a "techie" (that knows stuff) wanted to cripple a web site ... it wouldn't be too difficult for most imo.... except REALLY secure sites. And those sites have the brain power on the "inside" to see it and intervene..... I nose stuff .... well .... at least I used too :D |
Thanks for the education. I've often wondered the why of old threads being brought back.
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Thanks. I wonder what would be the intent of such "bots", just to wreak havoc and cause trouble within a website?
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I did see a bit on Fox news about cyber threats from China. probing our infrastructure. Power, water, transportation, you name it. An "expert" mentioning that our cyber security guys are outnumbered 50 to 1 by Chinese hackers...
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For instance, a lot of bots will register and create posts with a link to some product. THere's also the theory that if they post about some item enough on the Internet so that search engine crawlers find it that it will be placed higher in search results. If you're selling junk, you would want your junk to be at the top of the first page when people search for that particular junk. If there are 10,000 websites that have links to your junk, but the next nearest similar junk is only on 2,000 websites, then your junk will feature more prominently in search results for "junk". |
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Some search for emails to which they can send spam. Some find your website forms so they can spam you through your forms. Some search for vulnerabilities and exploits so they can install malicious code on your server. The malicious code can be used to: try to hack other websites, send email spam to others, send form spam to others, encrypt your server contents so they can demand a ransom to decrypt it, or display messages from Islamic fundamentalists bragging that they hacked it. Sent from my SM-G988B using Tapatalk |
Bots.
I had a website called lyallbaybeach.co.nz and I'd get about 2,000 hits per month. When I put in the key words tits and kardashians on the site the hit rate went WAY up. A big percentage of the hits were from bots. I had a pic of a girl on a cafe racer Ducati that got a lot of hits from some Italian motorcycle group. |
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FWIW ... most of 'em aren't even on a forum ... just parked on the main forum page I assume. Like Steve alluded ... much like a DoS at a network layer... oh well. And tho' I haven't been on PARF in a long time ... the really "star struck" reside there, and it just spills over to here for some .... that's a real person(s) ... not bots. |
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Lol.....takeover by the Abu Dhabi Call Girls!
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I was reading another forum and it's owned and administered by an individual. He has at least as many members as Pelican. He stated yesterday that 60% of the bots were Russian based.He mentioned something about bots "indexing" his forums (he owns a few) and that at times they really slow down his servers.
So he banned all of Russia. Now, IDK about VPN's and all that. Maybe due to the volume of data VPM's are not financially feasible for bots. I just thought this was interesting being a tech luddite. |
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The stats right now - "1204 (39 members & 1165 guests)". :confused:
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An analysis of the IP connections is called for .... or not. Just blocking Russia and China IP traffic will likely do it .... and looking to see if a bunch are from the "same IP address" would be prudent too. BTDT .... a loooong time ago ;) |
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How about a new sub-forum.....The Pelican Parts Abu Dhabi Call Girls.
Rule #1...Pics are mandatory. I've always thought they were hot...esp with the hijab.:) |
LOL, Steve!
The board has been SLOOOW this morning. I did notice that at one point there were ~300 guests, and then later there were ~600 guests. I haven't seen the crazy numbers that KC saw, but maybe those were the instances when I couldn't refresh or get the page to respond at all. |
Only 98 active users this morning (a "reset" must have just ocurred) ... we all used to get knocked off at 6:30 EST years ago ....
I've been seeing 9-10K active users the past few days... BotsR'Us :( |
Wow, crazy! I never notice the amount of users.
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It’s AI scraping the Internet to learn everything ever written, and commented on.
Nothing to see here… |
I'm not obsessed with this .... I just notice stuff :D....
Don't think it's AI scraping for info because the active users aren't on a forum ... they just park on the main page. More like a DoS attack ... and yep, they cripple the site at times. I PM'd Nostatic and Z-man ... I'm sure they care :(. The 9-10K "active users" for several days was twice the previous "high water" counts I have ever observed. As a former IT "infrastructure" guy ... this crap annoys me .... But not that much ;) |
There was an article the other day from a guy having the same problem.
https://about.readthedocs.com/blog/2024/07/ai-crawlers-abuse AI crawlers need to be more respectful |
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17,800 at 6am est on a Sunday morning....
A new Olympic bot record :D |
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