Did someone scan through this forum?

[NotEnoughTime]

I noticed in my user profile a user, MagicOPromotion, with no posts and no statistics. "XRumer 5.0 Palladium: best promotion software" is the only thing in the user "About Me." This user looks like a bot of some type - did this scan other users attempting to pick up personal information?

[Falsk]

I noticed that they'd "recently viewed" my profile pretty much an hour after my first post here. Probably a bot.

[Oscars Mom]

can you explain to non techies what this means ?Thanks

[magdalena]

Mine too! Gah.

[Kevin]

Researching it... Will have an answer shortly.

[Kevin]

It appears to be a promotional script that seeks out and spams forums all over the internet. Doesn't appear to be gathering personal data.

[NotEnoughTime]

Originally Posted by Oscars Mom

can you explain to non techies what this means ?Thanks

A bot is a "robot" - software that automatically performs some task and may be designed to look like a real person. These days bots are becoming more sophisticated with the ability to "drill down" (act like they are using a mouse) and read information from web pages...

Thank-you for your answer Kevin...