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koolkat
2007-12-09, 04:24 PM
While looking at my stats log I noticed a search for xxx_robots.txt. Has anyone else seen this? Is this some new file to use for robots for adult sites? |huh
T Pat
2007-12-09, 06:38 PM
I looked at 4 different domains and found one hit to xxx_robots.txt on one of my oldest domains have no idea what that's about|huh
Murderous
2007-12-13, 02:21 PM
I noticed quite a few in my 404 logs, not sure where this comes from.
j3sUS183
2007-12-13, 06:23 PM
Same situation here.. and no clue what's that..
Useless
2007-12-13, 07:31 PM
My theory is that someone or something is searching for peoples' old robots.txt files. I have no idea why one would do that, but I'm sure it's not a good thing. Prefixing an old file with 'xxx_' or 'xxx-' or 'old_' or 'old-' is pretty common.
X-Man
2007-12-15, 08:37 AM
Seems to be someone looking to get recognition for the file