I often check the "Who's Online" function of Optiboard. Everytime I do, I see several things that creep me out. I assume these are devices that scan websites to find email addresses and such to spam, but I am not sure. Here are examples of what I am talking about:
MSNBot Spider
YaHoo! Slurp Spider
Can someone educate me as to what these are? Thanks!
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The spiders are mostly there to index the page and it's contents so they can be found by search engines.
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Most forum software and BBS sites have search engine accounts set up for their spiders to index the pages. I know the big three (Bing, Yahoo, Google) all have accounts basically everywhere to allow them to get behind login walls.
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