I concurr. I have seen: /phpMyAdmin/scripts/setup.php /phpmyadmin/ /user/soapCaller.bs
I guess there are security holes in old versions of phpmyadmin. Some sort of content management with setup.php left unconfigured/unsecured so the bots are just checking out all of those url's. sam_w On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 8:51 AM, Daniel Roseman <dan...@roseman.org.uk> wrote: > On Oct 6, 10:32 pm, Scot Hacker <shac...@birdhouse.org> wrote: >> We have enabled the option to have 404 requests automatically emailed >> to admins. It works well, but sometimes we get strange reports like >> this: >> >> > Referrer:http://ourdomain.edu/forums/software/ >> > Requested URL: /forums/software/ >> > User agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0) >> > IP address: 94.29.103.134 >> >> What's strange about it is that the referring >> URLhttp://ourdomain.edu/forums/software/ >> *does not exist* - we removed it more than a year ago. So I can see >> why the requested URL is 404, but don't understand how a non-existent >> URL can be considered to be the referrer. Is this evidence of some >> kind of bot activity that fakes the referrer? >> >> Anyone seeing anything similar? >> >> Scot > > Yes, there are all sorts of bots around, and the referrer is easy to > fake - it's just an HTTP header. I quite frequently get reports with > referrers that have never even existed on my site. > -- > DR. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Django users" group. > To post to this group, send email to django-us...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-us...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en.
