Significant traffice from User-Agent 'XRV'

[bitjocky]

Hello all!

I'm seeing 30% of the traffic to my homepage from a user-agent of either "XRV" or "xrv". I cannot find anything on google or bing about such a user agent. Closest thing I found was a Trojan horse called Downloader.XRV. Has anyone else seen this user-agent and know what it may be:

Time Page Agent Method
6/20/2010 0:41 /homepage.htm xrv GET
6/20/2010 0:42 /homepage.htm XRV GET
6/20/2010 0:42 /homepage.htm xrv GET
6/20/2010 0:47 /homepage.htm xrv GET
6/20/2010 0:47 /homepage.htm xrv GET

Thank you,

Matt

[chandrika]

Never heard of such a user agent, but I think you can block any user agents in .htaccess and send them to any file, such as a 404.shtml

using the following code.....



RewriteEngine On
# redirect unrecognised user agents
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^xrv [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^XRV

RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /404.shtml