Re: strange http get requests in apache access logs

[rowland onobrauche <rowland.onobrauche () legendplc com>]

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aldiones wrote:

> Could you please share how you prevented this from happening in
> your server?
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> It would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanks!
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> On 10/16/06, *rowland onobrauche *
> <rowland.onobrauche () legendplc com
> <mailto:rowland.onobrauche () legendplc com>> wrote:

> Aubs wrote:
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> > Care to share with all? on the list - After all you did ask for
> > help :)
>
> > On 13/10/06, *rowland onobrauche* <
> > rowland.onobrauche () legendplc com
> <mailto:rowland.onobrauche () legendplc com>
> > <mailto:rowland.onobrauche () legendplc com
> <mailto:rowland.onobrauche () legendplc com>>> wrote:
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> > Digital Ebola wrote:
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> > > On 10/13/06, rowland onobrauche
> > > <rowland.onobrauche () legendplc com
> <mailto:rowland.onobrauche () legendplc com>
> > >
> > <mailto: rowland.onobrauche () legendplc com
> <mailto:rowland.onobrauche () legendplc com>>>
> > > wrote:
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> > > Hi all.
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> > > Im getting logs such as
>
> > > "GET
> > > http://www.escorts-etc.com/cgi-bin/ftop100/rankem.cgi?id=gagvault
> > > HTTP/1.0" 200 147 " http://www.gagvault.com/linkspage.html";
> > > "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1)"
>
> > > In some of my httpd access logs, even though this type of site
> > > is not existant on the server. Anyone seen this before??
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> > > >
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> > > Are you running any type of proxy configuration?
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> > No proxy, but someone has explained what the problem is.
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> > thanks very much to all
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> Thanks to all for the help.
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> I have since found that it was someone scanning for an open proxy.
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> regards
>
> rowlando


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All i could do was block the ip from the whole network and installed
mod_security on this particular server.


rowlando


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