How can I tell what an attacker attempted?

Posted: Wed Jun 02, 2004 8:53 pm

Hey,

I stopped someone tonight and don't really know what to do with it. Confused

The email says...

Quote:

Reason: Abuse - AGENT

The query string was...

Quote:

Query String: [ Only registered users can see links on this board! Get registered or login! ]

Is the query string what they were using to attack me? It doesn't look all that harmfull really.

Peace!

Site Admin/Owner Joined: Aug 27, 2002 Posts: 17088

An Agent report is a report of a Harvester, not really a hack attempt. This is notification of who the harvester is.

Posted: Wed Jun 02, 2004 9:45 pm

Ok anytime you see AGENT as the Reason its because the Harvestor list snagged the User-Agent as one that is banned. Thats why the actual query string looks innocent because it in fact was just a request for the index by a forbidden bot.

Posted: Wed Jun 02, 2004 10:14 pm

Okay, thanks.

So agents aren't really a huge deal then... I mean I don't even have any downloads at the moment, isn't that what harvestors do... harvest your download files?

Thanks guys.

Regular Joined: Aug 23, 2003 Posts: 77

Harvest it like Bot and Download Manager.