Wednesday, June 03, 2009

Moozilla

We get repeated hits from a user agent called Moozilla. The hits will come from a bunch of different IP addresses on the Netscape/AOL network in succession. Sample hits:

6/1/2009 17:46 207.200.116.73 Moozilla
6/1/2009 17:46 207.200.116.131 Moozilla
6/1/2009 17:46 207.200.116.135 Moozilla
6/1/2009 17:46 207.200.116.136 Moozilla
6/1/2009 17:46 207.200.116.5 Moozilla
6/1/2009 17:46 207.200.116.12 Moozilla
6/1/2009 17:46 207.200.116.135 Moozilla
6/1/2009 17:46 207.200.116.136 Moozilla
6/1/2009 17:46 207.200.116.5 Moozilla
6/1/2009 17:46 207.200.116.12 Moozilla
6/1/2009 17:46 207.200.116.67 Moozilla
6/1/2009 17:46 207.200.116.6 Moozilla
6/1/2009 17:46 207.200.116.65 Moozilla

We have sent specific messaging back to this bot or software and contacted AOL about the problem but the particular traffic continues. When this particular software hits, it generates hundreds of hits on our web site in succession and does not behave like a normal web user.

The network reported generating this traffic is Netscape (now owned by AOL).

OrgName: Netscape Communications Corp.
OrgID: NSCP
Address: 501 E. Middlefield
City: Mountain View
StateProv: CA
PostalCode: 94043
Country: US

NetRange: 207.200.64.0 - 207.200.127.255