Twenga and their bot

Highland · **Joined:** Mon Apr 10, 2006 12:55 pm **Posts:** 656

Has anyone heard of Twenga?
http://www.twenga.com/bot.html

I had to shut them off with the firewall because their infernal script was scrawling dozens of our sites at once.
IP list, if you're interested
94.75.199.211
94.75.247.195
94.75.247.197
94.75.199.212
85.17.226.92
95.211.113.74

Highland · **Joined:** Mon Apr 10, 2006 12:55 pm **Posts:** 656

Ok, maybe they're trying to get back at me now. I had about 100 requests blocked last night like this

GET /sales-catalog/index/index/index/index/index/index/index/index/index/index/index/index/index/index/index/index/index/index/index/alert(this.getAttribute('title')); return false; HTTP/1.0
Host: www.mydomain.com
User-Agent: TwengaBot/1.1 (+http://www.twenga.com/bot.html)
Accept-Encoding: gzip
Cookie: PHPSESSID=vgdu7ao4ic8b2q62qnbff0a3i2; stat_marker=stat;
Accept-Language: en,en;q=0.5
Accept-Charset: utf-8,*;q=0.7

All from different IPs

mikeshinn · **Posted:** Fri May 28, 2010 5:09 am

We added a rule into ASL yesterday to block this bot. If that doesnt work for some reason, please let us know.

Highland · **Joined:** Mon Apr 10, 2006 12:55 pm **Posts:** 656

I know. I was the one who filed the ticket

We had (I kid you not) over 139 million hits from their infernal bot in a week. After the rule update it dropped our processor loads by half.

scott · **Posted:** Fri May 28, 2010 4:24 pm

Wow. Thats pretty metal.

mikeshinn · **Posted:** Sun May 30, 2010 8:14 am

Quote:

After the rule update it dropped our processor loads by half.

ASL: Saving you CPU cycles from stupid bots since 2005.

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