[ale] Silly browser strings

[mike at trausch.us]

On 02/10/2012 11:12 AM, William Bagwell wrote:
> On Thursday 09 February 2012, Jay Lozier wrote:
>> > On 02/09/2012 11:29 AM, William Bagwell wrote:
>>> > > "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Update a; AOL 6.0; Windows 98)"
>> >
>> > Windows 98, when did M$ stop support for it? If it truly is Win98, I
>> > wonder how infested it is.
> One source said 2006, another 2007. My point was how unlikely it would be 
> for 11 computers that old try to connect to a web site in a three minute 
> period. One I would believe, not 11.

It would appear that the domain that you've acquired was probably
previously the host of a zombie system, or perhaps a zombie controller even.

I don't think I have seen more than 2 Windows 98 systems in the last
five years, personally.

	--- Mike

-- 
A man who reasons deliberately, manages it better after studying Logic
than he could before, if he is sincere about it and has common sense.
                                   --- Carveth Read, “Logic”

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