Now, before I go on, these are based on Visual Studio 2005 (but I have just looked at Visual Studio 2008 and I have no reason to think these don’t apply). So what are my comments this time around on my Microsoft bashing merry go round (more…)

Since my original ‘Scraped by 208.50.101.153′ post, a bunch of guys who were also interested in knowing what it was all about got together here and figured it out. I’ve verified most of what was discovered and written up an article all about here on my wiki.

In short, it appears to be related to Microsoft’s SmartScreen filter, but for more information head on over to my wiki and check out the write up of the guys research.

This is a bit of a long shot… if you are a regular visitor with your own blog… do you have any information about this IP address (208.50.101.153)?

The reason I’m asking is because it’s linked to a company called Global Crossing, and today at around 11am server time, this address and at least one other connected to Global Crossing scraped my site… absolutely every link was followed.

So… if you know anything about this IP address and they’ve visited you’re site, I’d love to know about it. And of course, if you are anything to do with Global Crossing… why in the hell have you scraped my site? Or, if you are the person who scraped it, why? I shall be googling for my own content, and if I find it reproduced anywhere without my permission, I’ll be coming down on you with the full force of the copyright laws available to me… given these IPs reside stateside, the laws are pretty dam good. You have been warned!

Update:- Well, well…. another scrape… at the moment it’s only partial, this time from 78.159.112.96 a company called netdirekt (German), and who are they partnered with… Global Crossing!