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Old 06-11-2009, 07:55 PM
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Did someone scan through this forum?

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?
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Old 06-11-2009, 08:27 PM
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I noticed that they'd "recently viewed" my profile pretty much an hour after my first post here. Probably a bot.
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Old 06-11-2009, 08:48 PM
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can you explain to non techies what this means ?Thanks
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Old 06-11-2009, 09:19 PM
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Mine too! Gah.
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Old 06-11-2009, 11:38 PM
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Researching it... Will have an answer shortly.
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Old 06-11-2009, 11:43 PM
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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.
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Old 06-12-2009, 12:17 AM
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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...
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